Chassid

American  

[khah-sid, hah-, khaw-sid, khah-seed] / ˈxɑ sɪd, ˈhɑ-, ˈxɔ sɪd, xɑˈsid /

Or Chasid

noun

Judaism.

plural

Chassidim

1. Hasid.

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Chassid British  

/ xəˈsid, həˈsɪdɪk, ˈhæsɪd /

noun

1. a sect of Jewish mystics founded in Poland about 1750, characterized by religious zeal and a spirit of prayer, joy, and charity

2. a Jewish sect of the 2nd century _bc , formed to combat Hellenistic influences

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Other Word Forms

• Chassidic adjective
• Chassidism noun

Example Sentences

And the Rebbe sits and looks out, sees some Chassid�m walking along in silence, and throws down to them from the balcony the fragments of a tune.

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If a Chassid goes astray, what does he become?

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The goitred Chassid opened his lips and added, "If not now, when? as Hillel asked."

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Do you forget what the Chassid said of the man who foreknew in his lifetime that for him there was to be no heaven?

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Wrongly attributed to a single writer, Judah Chassid, the "Book of the Pious" was really the combined product of the Jewish spirit in the thirteenth century.

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