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Yalkut haMachiri
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “definitively known”. Today it says “work of midrash”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Halakhic Midrash Aggadic Midrash Targum”. It now reads “Work of midrash Halakhic Midrash Aggadic Midrash Targum”.
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Halakhic Midrash Aggadic Midrash Targum v t e Machir ben Abba Mari ( Hebrew : מכיר בן אבא מרי ) was the author of a work entitled Yalkut ha-Makiri (ילקוט המכירי), but about whom not even the country or the period in which he lived is definitively known.1 Strack & Stemberger (1991) indicate that the work was most probably composed in the late 13th or 14th century.2
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “definitively known”. Today it says “work of midrash”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Halakhic Midrash Aggadic Midrash Targum”. It now reads “Work of midrash Halakhic Midrash Aggadic Midrash Targum”. Read the current article and compare.
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work of midrash
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