Hasidic
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
Hasidic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Hasidic Judaism; being a Hasid.
- 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun[1]:
- Next, R. Moskowitz brings us to the Slonimer Rebbe, a late 20th century Hasidic rabbi, who taught that the evil of Esav was that very sense of completion, the self-perception that he had no need for growth or further transformation.
Translations
of Hasidic Judaism
being a Hasid
Noun
Hasidic (plural Hasidics)
- Synonym of Hasid.
- 1980 December 4, Andy Christian, “‘Visions fugitives’”, in The Christian Science Monitor[2], Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 September 2015:
- [Marc] Chagall’s parents were Hasidics, members of a group of Jewish mystics.
- 1993 April 17, The Guardian Weekend, London, →OCLC, page 23, column 1:
- He [Yankel Rosenbaum] was the second person to die violently in the Crown Heights district of Brooklyn in less than 12 hours. The first was a 7-year-old black child by the name of Gavin Cato, knocked down at 4.30pm the previous day by a speeding car driven by a Hasidic who, it was said, had then tried to run away from the scene of the accident.
- 2015, Joshua Cohen, “From the Palo Alto Sessions”, in Book of Numbers: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 0.212:
- Of the msgs on the voicemail we checked, what surprised us the most were the appointment confirmations from gun ranges and attendance requests from Hasidics seeking a minyan.
References
- ^ “Hasidic, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
- “Hasidic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Hasidic, Hassidic, Chasidic, Chassidic at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.