Sifre Zutta (Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: ספרי זוטא) was a Mishnaic Hebrew-language midrash on the Book of Numbers.
[a] However, fragments of the work have been discovered in the Cairo Geniza, and excerpts from it are quoted in the Midrash HaGadol and in Yalkut Shimoni.
[3][4] Earlier authors knew of it and occasionally quoted it, such as Samson ben Abraham of Sens in his commentary on the mishnaic orders Zera'im and Ṭohorot.
Around 1900, Königsberger began to edit the Sifre Zutta based on the Midrash ha-Gadol and Yalkut Shimoni extracts.
[21] The fact that the Sifre Zutta to 5:27 contradicts Simeon's view[22] shows merely that the editor also drew upon other midrashim, including, perhaps, that of Eliezer ben Jacob I and that of Rabbi Ishmael.