melammed

[ Sephardic Hebrew muh-lah-med; Ashkenazic Hebrew muh-lah-mid ]

noun

, Hebrew.

, plural me·lamm·dim [m, uh, -lahm-, deem, m, uh, -, lahm, -dim].

1. melamed.

Example Sentences

All his life he had dreamed of the day when he should be given a free hand in his work, so that everyone should see who Yitzchok-Yossel is, and at the end came—the trousers, Reb Yecheskel Melammed's trousers!

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So if you are coming to me to ask me I should give Rudnik an extension on his Clinton Street house, you could learn Gemara to me till I would become so big a Melammed as you are, understand me, and it wouldn't make no difference.

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The Melammed is rarely a dull scholar.

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Until they are six years old they are under the “Melammed’s” rod all day; after that only in the interval between public school and supper.

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Positions, from the lowly melammed's to the honorable chief rabbi's in prominent communities, were filled almost exclusively by them.

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