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Chassidim

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Chassidim: see Hasidim Hasidim or Chassidim [Heb.,=the pious], term used by the rabbis to describe those Jews who maintained the highest standard of religious observance and moral action. The term has been applied to movements at three distinct times.
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Not surprisingly, joyous, totally-lacking-in-decorum dance and song, have been integral to the practice of chassidim from its founding to its resurgence in the contemporary world known as neo-chasidism.
Toward a cosmology of continual creation: from ecofeminism to ... by Diamond, Irene / Cross Currents
and all the more so when I learn that over a quarter of these black-clad chassidim work for Microsoft
Saying Kaddish by ALEXANDER, EDWARD / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
If we who resemble him in these matters want to understand with what intimate joy they were invested for the Chassidim, we shall do best to go to Peretz.
Irving Howe and secular Jewishness: an elegy by Alexander, Edward / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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