Midrash Maaseh Torah (Hebrew: מדרש מעשי תורה) is one of the smaller midrashim, and contains compilations of doctrines, regulations of conduct, and empirical rules, arranged in groups of three to ten each and taken from various works.
[4] A similar collection, probably more ancient in origin, was edited by Horowitz in the Kebod Huppah,[5] the work being based on a codex of De Rossi of the year 1290.
This compilation is named the "Huppat Eliyahu" or the "Sheva Huppot," on account of its opening words, "Seven canopies will God set up for the righteous in the world to come".
16 by R. Israel Alnaqua at the end of his Menorat ha-Ma'or; and this portion of the compilation, together with other extracts from this work, was appended by Elijah de Vidas to his Reshit Chochmah.
The Ma'aseh Torah formed the model for the rich collection of the Vilna Gaon which bears the same name, and which appeared at Warsaw in 1804 with the additions of his son Abraham.