"Midrash of desire"), or "Commentary of the Book of the Law",[1] is a Hebrew midrash written by the physician and Rabbi, Yihye ibn Suleiman al-Dhamari, otherwise known as Zechariah ben Solomon ha-Rofé, which he began to write in 1430 in Yemen and concluded some years later.
Many of the homilies contained in the midrash are written in the form of an allegory which, in this case, differs from the literary style of Maimonides.
Schecter published his findings in a different publication,[4] and which are now a part of the manuscript collections in the British Library (with four copies: Or.
The midrashic work contains a wisdom contest between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
It is noted as part of a long literary tradition about these figures, and for its inclusion of a number of Hebrew riddles: The Midrash ha-Ḥefez was translated into Hebrew by Rabbi Dr. Meir Havazelet, and published by Mossad Harav Kook in Jerusalem (1990) - Genesis and Exodus; and in 1992 - Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, and contains an Introduction by Rabbi Yosef Qafih.