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  • Rabbi Kassel Abelson once said, The Hebrew word for parent is horim and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher.

    Earl Martin Phalen: Brooklyn Role Model Parent Shares Advice Earl Martin Phalen 2011

  • Rabbi Kassel Abelson once said, The Hebrew word for parent is horim and it comes from the same root as moreh, teacher.

    Earl Martin Phalen: Brooklyn Role Model Parent Shares Advice Earl Martin Phalen 2011

  • Minors are generally not subject to punishment by rabbinic law although they may have been subject to punishment by biblical law (e.g. the rebellious son, ben sorer u-moreh, Deuteronomy 21: 18 – 21, Mishnah Sanhedrin 8: 1 – 5).

    Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • I was a little stunned at that response — too much so to get into questions of the reason for the halachos of the eved Kenaani, the Sotah, ben sorer u-moreh, etc.

    Vegetarians are “supremely un-Jewish” | Jewschool 2007

  • Balti-moreh, -- it's in the neighborhood, you know, -- and you can tell them, for a mark, that he has a silk handkerchief with his monogram in

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • Balti-moreh, – it's in the neighborhood, you know, – and you can tell them, for a mark, that he has a silk handkerchief with his monogram in Russian, that his betrothed embroidered for him before the engagement was broken.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • Yoreh (Hos. 6: 3), or moreh (Joel 2: 23), denoting the former or the early rain.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • The participle signifies _giver of oracles_ in the two, examples _gibeath moreh_ and _allon moreh_.

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • It happened at that time those of our town whose hearts were deceived by _Satan_, not knowing the _Son of David_, went so far as to dare to '_raca_' and '_moreh_' and injure your respected boat.

    A Retrospect James Hudson Taylor 1868

  • His use of "raca" and "moreh" for reviling, shows their meaning was not lost upon him.

    A Retrospect James Hudson Taylor 1868

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