Masorah or Mesorah () refers either to the transmission of
Jewish religious tradition, or to the tradition itself, and may refer to:
* The Hebrew vowel points also known as
niqqud
In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud ( or ) is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Several such diacritical systems were developed in the Ea ...
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Masoretic Text
The Masoretic Text (MT or 𝕸; ) is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (''Tanakh'') in Rabbinic Judaism. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with its vocaliz ...
, the authoritative text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism
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Masoretes
The Masoretes (, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe- scholars who worked from around the end of the 5th through 10th centuries CE, based primarily in the Jewish centers of the Levant (e.g., Tiberias and Jerusalem) an ...
, scribes who passed down the Masoretic text
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Masortim
Masortim (, Masortiim lit. "traditional eople, also known as ''Shomrei Masoret'' ; ) is an Israeli Hebrew term for Jews who perceive and define themselves as neither strictly religious ('' dati'') nor secular ('' hiloni''). Their affinity is m ...
, meaning "traditional", semi-observant Jews in Israel
* Masorti Judaism, another name for
Conservative Judaism
Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism, is a Jewish religious movements, Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations ...
* Mesora, an alternative spelling for
Metzora (parashah)
Metzora, Metzorah, M'tzora, Mezora, Metsora, M'tsora, Metsoro, Meṣora, or Maṣoro (—Hebrew for "one being diseased," the ninth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 28th weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the ann ...
* Mesorah Publications Ltd., the publisher of
ArtScroll
ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from an Orthodox Jewish perspective published by Mesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Rahway, New Jersey. Rabbi Nosson Scherman is the general editor.
ArtScro ...
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Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
Torah Umesorah – National Society for Hebrew Day Schools (or Torah Umesorah ) is a Haredi Orthodox Jewish educational charity based in the United States that promotes Torah-based Jewish religious education in North America by supporting and dev ...
, a Haredi American educational network
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Masora River, a river in
Mahanoro
Mahanoro is a rural municipality located in the Atsinanana region of eastern Madagascar, along the coast.
It is located 9 km north of the mouth of the Mangoro River.Moriarity, H.A.Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean p. 126-28 (1891) (hist ...
, Atsinanana, Madagascar
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