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Masorah or Mesora, (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 ?????) refers either to the transmission of a (religious) tradition
Tradition

The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem, acc. of traditio which means "handing over, passing on", and is used in a number of ways in the English language:...
, or to the tradition itself.






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Masorah or Mesora, (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 ?????) refers either to the transmission of a (religious) tradition
Tradition

The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem, acc. of traditio which means "handing over, passing on", and is used in a number of ways in the English language:...
, or to the tradition itself.
  • In a broad sense the term can refer to the entire chain of Jewish
    Judaism

    Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
     tradition: see Oral law in Judaism
    Oral Torah

    A term used to denote the legal and interpretative traditions which were transmitted Speech, and which were not written in the Torah. According to Rabbinic Judaism, the oral Torah, oral Law, or oral tradition was given by God orally to Moses in conjunction with the written Torah ....
    .
  • In a narrow sense the term refers to the tradition of the Masoretes
    Masoretes

    The Masoretes were groups of scribes and Tanakh scholars working between the 7th and 11th centuries, based primarily in Israel in the cities of Tiberias and Jerusalem, as well as in Babylonia....
     used in determining the precise text of the Tanakh
    Tanakh

    The Tanakh is the Bible used in Judaism. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew language Acronym and initialism formed from the initial Hebrew alphabet of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim - hence TaNaKh....
     (Hebrew Bible): see Masoretic Text
    Masoretic Text

    The Masoretic Text is the Hebrew language text of the Jewish Bible . It defines not just the Development of the Jewish Bible canon, but also the precise letter-text of the biblical books in Judaism, as well as their niqqud and cantillation for both public reading and private study....
    .


Other possible meanings

  • Masorti Judaism is the name used for Conservative Judaism
    Conservative Judaism

    Conservative Judaism is a modern Jewish denominations of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s....
     in the State of Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    , as well as elsewhere outside of the U.S.
  • "Mesorah" may refer to "Mesorah Publications, Ltd." publishers of the Artscroll
    ArtScroll

    ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from an Orthodox Judaism perspective published by Mesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York, New York City....
     range of Jewish literature - a reference to this direct transmission of tradition from generation to generation.
  • "Mesorah" is part of the name of "Torah Umesorah" (Torah Umesorah-National Society for Hebrew Day Schools) a Haredi Judaism
    Haredi Judaism

    Haredi or Chareidi Judaism is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi ....
     educational organization in the United States.
  • "Mesora" or "Metzora
    Metzora (parsha)

    Metzora, Metzorah, M?tzora, Mezora, Metsora, or M?tsora is the 28th weekly Torah portion in the annual Judaism cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the book of Leviticus....
    " is the 28th weekly parsha
    Parsha

    This article is about the divisions of the Torah into weekly readings. For this week's Torah portion, see Portal:Judaism/Weekly Torah portion box...
    h or portion in the annual Jewish
    Judaism

    Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
     cycle of Torah reading
    Torah reading

    Torah reading is a Judaism religion ritual that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Sefer Torah. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the Torah scroll from the ark , chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillation, and returning the scroll to the ark....
    .