The rebbe looked at one of the peasants and put out his hand with his palm to the ceiling.
Being obedient disciples, they got in their carriages and followed their rebbe.
The bottom line is simple: if the rebbe issues a directive, the Chassidim carry it out.
Everyone circled around the rebbe and the Jews as they walked to the center of the dance floor.
So says Grand Rabbi Y. A. Korff, rebbe of the Zhvil-Mezbuz Hasidic sect.
And the little tree falls, and the rebbe splits it up into logs, and the logs into splinters.
We sat down on the ground in a row, the "rebbe" in the middle.
Uncles and cousins came, and perhaps my brother's rebbe, to examine his pupil in the hearing of the family.
The rebbe regards the pupil in amazement mixed with anxiety.
The fingers of the rebbe were long, and the nails, I am afraid, were not very clean.
1881, from Yiddish, from Hebrew rabbi (see rabbi).
