Commentary for Berakhot 47:19

M. : Doreshe Reshumot. Both these terms are the names of ancient Schools of Bible interpreters. See the exhaustive discussion of Lauterbach in J. Q. R. (New Series) i. pp. 291-333, 503-531. His conclusion is, "The Doreshe Hamurot were, therefore, those allegoristic interpreters of the law whose method and tendency were to find the importance and significance of the law, its real meaning and purpose, since it is this, the real meaning and purpose, that gave the law weight and importance ; and they considered the importance and significance of the law, its homer, to lie, not in the plain meaning of the letter of the law, but in the spirit of the law and its allegorical meaning, which they would read into it"; ibid. p. 509.