The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: Next take choice spices: five hundred weight of free mor, half as much—two hundred and fifty—of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and fifty of aromatic cane, five hundred—by the sanctuary weight—of cassia, and a hin of olive oil. Make of this a sacred anointing oil, a compound of ingredients expertly blended, to serve as sacred anointing oil. With it anoint the Tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Covenant, the table and all its utensils, the menorah and all its fittings, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand. Thus you shall consecrate them so that they may be most holy; whatever touches them shall be consecrated. You shall also anoint Aaron and his sons, consecrating them to serve Me as priests. And speak to the Israelite people, as follows: This shall be an anointing oil sacred to Me throughout the ages. It must not be rubbed on any person’s body, and you must not make anything like it in the same proportions; it is sacred, to be held sacred by you. Whoever compounds its like, or puts any of it on a layman, shall be cut off from his kin.

This is blood congealed near the throat of the yadua beast in India resembling a deer and in the summer when it is very hot and that beast walks amongst trees and its coat rubs involuntarily against the bark of the trees, some of this congealed blood leaves its body and is collected by people for the sake of its fragrance. People find it amongst the herbs. ...The reason the Torah describes it as דרור, “free,” is to indicate that it was to be pure and unadulterated. Nachmanides understands the word דרור as not referring to the spice called מר, but as describing the deer-like animal from which it is derived. Accordingly, the substance would have to be removed from the animal while the animal roams free and continues to enjoy its unfettered lifestyle. If it were to be taken from the animal after same had been captured and domesticated, there would not only be very little of it available quantity-wise, but it also would already have lost its distinctive fragrance. All of the foregoing is based on the opinion of those experts who identify mor as an animalistic substance. ...Nachmanides believes, however, that the word mor refers to a herb called myrrh in Latin, and armanon (or similar) in Persian. Most languages know the herb producing this fragrance by the name myrrh. ... The word דרור, refers to the need for this מור to be pure, unadulterated, precisely because people use it in an adulterated form to counteract its negative qualities. The reason the Torah lists it first is because in the list of the ingredients for the incense offering which are enumerated later in this chapter it represents the most potent ingredient. It produced a copius cloud of incense. When we read about the preparation of the girls aspiring to become Ahasversus’ queen, we are told that they were first treated for 6 months with oil containing this myrrh. This shows how important an ingredient this spice was as a cosmetic treatment (compare Esther 2,12). Clearly the herb “myrrh” was one from which oil for perfume could be extracted also. According to Nachmanides this oil would be extracted from the bark of the myrrh plant. [According to the Encyclopedia Britannica myrrh is an agreeably aromatic but bitter-tasting resinous substance obtained from small thorny trees that belong to the genus Commiphora. The name is derived from the Arabic word for “bitter.” Ed.].

Mor refers to the blood contained with a wild beast from India that is of universal renown which people everywhere use as a fragrance.

..."My mind does not accept that there would enter in the holy service any sort of wild-animal blood in the world, all the more so the blood of a non-kosher wild animal! Rather, the mor is that which is mentioned in Shir HaShirim 5:1, בָּאתִי לְגַנִּי, אֲחֹתִי כַלָּה--אָרִיתִי מוֹרִי עִם-בְּשָׂמִי, 'I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;' and this is of a species of herb or tree, and its scent spreads out."

Just as a person is forbidden to partake of food or drink without first saying a blessing, so it is forbidden to enjoy a fragrant odor without a previous blessing. What blessing is said for a fragrant odor? If the odoriferous substance was wood or something that comes from wood,^*e.g. bark of a tree. the blessing is "Who createst fragrant trees." If it was a herb, or something that comes from a herb, the blessing is "Who createst fragrant herbs". And if it is neither species of tree nor herb, such as the mor, which is a species of wild beast, one blesses upon it Borei Minei Vesamim. Mor -- since it has come to our hands, we will say a word about it. There are those who say that it is the sweat of the animal. And what seems correct to me is that it is a known animal, and it has something akin to a hump in its neck, and at first gathers there something akin to blood, and afterwards it dries and from this is made the mor. And the Ramah (Rabbenu Meir Halevi Abulafia) would forbid one to eat it because of worry of blood. And Rabbenu Yonah wrote that it is possible to give a reason to permit it, for it is {likened to} merely excrement, even though initially it was blood, for we go after its present state. Know this is so, for behold honey, if a piece of forbidden foodstuff fell in it, even if the forbidden stuff melted into it, since it is the way of honey to turn something which falls into it into honey, we judge it to be as honey. So too here, even though initially it was blood, we go after its present state.

Let no one be found among you who consigns his son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer, one who casts spells, or one who consults Ov or Yidoa sorcerers, or one who inquires of the dead. For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to the LORD, and it is because of these abhorrent things that the LORD your God is dispossessing them before you.

§ The residents of Pappunya said to Rav Mattana: ... From where in the Torah can one find an allusion to the greatness bestowed upon Mordecai? He replied: As it is written with regard to the anointing oil in the Tabernacle: “And you shall also take the chief spices, of free mor [mor deror]” (Exodus 30:23); and we translate mor deror into Aramaic as: Mira dakhya, which resembles the name Mordecai.

In the fortress Shushan lived the Yehudi man by the name of Mordecai, son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, a Benjaminite.

She conceived again and bore a son, and declared, “This time I will acknowledge the LORD.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

(13) Accordingly, written instructions were dispatched by couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, massacre, and exterminate all the Yehudim, young and old, children and women, on a single day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month—that is, the month of Adar—and to plunder their possessions.