Ḥasīd (Hebrew: חסיד, "pious", "saintly", "godly man"; plural חסידים "Hasidim") is a Jewish honorific, frequently used as a term of exceptional respect...
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Hasidic Judaism (redirect from Hasidism)
Hasidism (Hebrew: חסידות, romanized: Ḥăsīdūt) or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival...
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Chabad (redirect from Lubavitch Hasidism)
Hipster Hasidism?" Religion Dispatches. University of Southern Carolina. February 2, 2012 Nussbaum-Cohen, Debra. "Of Hasids, Hipsters, and Hipster Hasids."...
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January 1930 ― 26 December 2019), popularly known by his pen name Arjan Hasid, was an Indian Sindhi language poet who had authored seven collections of...
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Neo-Hasidism, also Neochassidut or Neo-Chassidus, is an approach to Judaism in which aspects of Hasidic Judaism are incorporated into non-Hasidic religious...
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Rabbi Eliyahu Hasid (Hebrew: אליהו חסיד; born 12 November 1976) is an Israeli politician. He briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the United...
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he-Hasid (disambiguation) for other people who used this name. Judah he-Hasid Segal ha-Levi (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה הֶחָסִיד, romanized: Yəhūdā heḤasīd, lit...
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Rebbe (redirect from Rebbe (Hasidism))
all arenas of life, including political and social issues. Sometimes a Hasid has a rebbe as his spiritual guide and an additional rav for rulings on...
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People who used the name Judah HeHasid (Hebrew: יהודה החסיד, Yehudah HeHasid, "Judah the Pious") include: Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (12th-13th centuries)...
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Hurva Synagogue (redirect from Hurvat Yehudah He-Hasid)
ha-Hurva, lit. 'The Ruin Synagogue'), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid (Hebrew: חורבת רבי יהודה החסיד, lit. 'Ruin of Rabbi Judah the Pious'), is...
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Hasidic philosophy or Hasidism (Hebrew: חסידות), alternatively transliterated as Hasidut or Chassidus, consists of the teachings of the Hasidic movement...
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Misnagdim (section Hasidism's changes and challenges)
religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Misnagdim were particularly concentrated...
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Proselyte (redirect from Hasid of the Nations)
The biblical term "proselyte" is an anglicization of the Koine Greek term προσήλυτος (proselytos), as used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) for...
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Siget (Hasidic dynasty) (redirect from Sighet Hasidism)
Siget or Ujhel-Siget or Sighet Hasidism, or Sigter Hasidim, is a movement of Hungarian Haredi Jews who adhere to Hasidism, and who are referred to as Sigeter...
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half of the 18th century, Eastern European Jews who were opponents of Hasidism, known as the Perushim, settled in Palestine. In the late 18th century...
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that many religions attribute to certain people", referring to the Jewish ḥasīd or tzadik, the Islamic walī/fakir, the Hindu rishi, Sikh bhagat or guru...
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Ashkenazi Hasidim (redirect from Ashkenazic Hasidism)
told to individuals gathered around a leader and this leader was called a hasid bakhamor a Pietist Sage. The Pietist, as an individual but even more as...
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Shulem Deen (born 1974) is an American author, essayist, former Skver Hasid, and critic of Hasidic Judaism. He is the author of the memoir All Who Go...
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followers during his lifetime, and his influence continues today in Breslover Hasidism and non-Hasidic movements. Rabbi Nachman's religious philosophy revolved...
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Samuel of Speyer (redirect from Samuel ben Kalonymus he-Hasid of Speyer)
Samuel ben Kalonymus he-Hasid of Speyer (Hebrew: שמואל החסיד; 1120–1175), was a Tosafist, liturgical poet, and philosopher of the 12th century, surnamed...
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Ger (Hasidic dynasty) (redirect from Gur Hasid)
(1798–1866), known as the "Chiddushei HaRim". Ger is a branch of Peshischa Hasidism, as Yitzchak Meir Alter was a leading disciple of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa...
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Hasidic Judaism in Poland (redirect from Polish Hasidism)
Hasidic dynasties trace their genealogical and ideological origin to Polish Hasidism. While Reb Shmelke of Nikolsburg was an influential figure from which the...
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full doctrine of "Practical/Popular Tzaddikism". He was the founder of Hasidism in Poland-Galicia, and numerous leaders and Hasidic dynasties emerged from...
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Satmar (redirect from Satmar Hasidism)
Galician-descended Jews were poor, unacculturated, and strongly influenced by Hasidism. Sighet, as well as most other Hungarian Hasidic dynasties, originated...
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Tanya (Judaism) (section Kabbalah and Hasidism)
Hasidic philosophy, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, first published in 1796. Its formal title is Likkutei Amarim (ליקוטי אמרים...
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socio-historical processes in the region: with Hasidism: Key Questions, Hasidism: A New History (co-authored) and Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives (co-edited)...
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daughters among whom David Moishele divides his "kingdom" are, respectively a Hasid, an Orthodox Jewish businessman, and an apikoyres, or secular Jew. The title...
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Jacob HaLevi of Marvège (redirect from Jacob ha-Levi He-hasid)
domain: Solomon Schechter and S. Mannheimer (1901–1906). "JACOB HA-LEVI HE-ḤASID". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York:...
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sayings and legends. He was known as "the Ḥasid," and it is said that wherever the Talmud speaks of "the Ḥasid", it is a reference either to him or to Judah...
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Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (redirect from Judah he-Ḥasid)
ben Samuel of Regensburg (1150 – 22 February 1217), also called Yehuda HeHasid or Judah the Pious in Hebrew, was a leader of the Ashkenazi Hasidim a movement...
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