Maamor

{{for|the Arabic surnamee|Maamar}} {{Unreferenced|date=March 2022}} '''Maamor''' or '''ma'amar''' (Hebrew, plural: '''Ma'amarim''' (masculine); '''Ma'amaros''' (feminine)) is derived from the Hebrew word to 'speak/pronounce/express/say'. It literally means an 'expression/statement/enunciation', or in a broader sense 'teaching/lesson/discourse'. It is sometimes used in traditional Judaism for a printed study of Torah teachings.

Among particular connotations are: *Pirkei Avot (Mishnaic, 'Ethics of the Fathers') states that God created the world with ''asarah '''ma'amaros''''' meaning ten of His "expressions", or commands, interpreted in Kabbalah as the 10 Sefirot. *Maamarim (Chabad) is the term used in the Chabad Hasidic dynasty for the central mystical "discourses" in Hasidic thought of each of its 7 leaders. *In the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin it refers to a type of public lecture combining a variety of schools of rabbinic thought by Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner.

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