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Melamed
Melamed, Melammed (Hebrew: מלמד, romanized: məlammeḏ "teacher") in Biblical times denoted a religious teacher or instructor in general (e.g., in Psalm 119:99 and Proverbs 5:13), but which in the Talmudic period was applied especially to a teacher of children, and was almost invariably followed by the word tinokot (Hebrew: תינוקות, romanized: tinoqoṯ "children"). The Aramaic equivalent was Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מקרי דרדקי, romanized: maqrē dardaqē. The melamed was appointed by the community,
