The bottom line is simple: if the rebbe issues a directive, the Chassidim carry it out.
So says Grand Rabbi Y. A. Korff, rebbe of the Zhvil-Mezbuz Hasidic sect.
Being obedient disciples, they got in their carriages and followed their rebbe.
The rebbe looked at one of the peasants and put out his hand with his palm to the ceiling.
Everyone circled around the rebbe and the Jews as they walked to the center of the dance floor.
Tall and lean was the rebbe, with a lean, pointed face and a thin, pointed beard.
The fingers of the rebbe were long, and the nails, I am afraid, were not very clean.
rebbe, translating: "In the beginning God created the earth."
The rebbe exchanges his skull-cap for his street cap, is about to go.
The rebbe regards the pupil in amazement mixed with anxiety.
1881, from Yiddish, from Hebrew rabbi (see rabbi).
