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US
/həˈsidɪm, həˈsɪdɪm/
]
NOUN
- a sect of Orthodox Jews that arose out of a pietistic movement originating in eastern Europe in the second half of the 18th century; a sect that follows the Mosaic law strictly
How To Use Hasidim In A Sentence
- Upon investigation, they were amazed to find that the chants came not from Hasidim cantillating but from Hindu soldiers in service of the British army! Hadassah (Spira Epstein).
- A hiltsener tsung zol er bakumn Er, for those of us who are neither Hasidim nor Ashkenazi 80-year-olds, what … ? The Worst Kind | Jewschool
- Among the Hasidim, a title popularly accorded to more or less learned individuals distinguished for their piety, and credited with supernatural powers of healing, divination, etc. The Promised Land
- Hasidim streamed to her as they did when her husband, the holy rabbi and zaddik, was alive. Hasidic Hebrew Fiction: Portrayal of Women.
- In addition, stories and exempla like those found in moral literature such as Sefer Hasidim, a late twelfth/early thirteenth-century book written by R. Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid (c. 1150 – 1217) and his successors, illuminate different aspects of medieval life and beliefs. Medieval Ashkenaz (1096-1348).
- The guttural letter in the middle naturally disappears in the Greek text, just as the Greek word "Assidean" represents the Hebrew Chasidim in the same history. Byeways in Palestine
