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Gabbai

[gah-bahy, gah-bahy, guh-bahy]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

plural

Gabbaim 
,

plural

Gabbais .
  1. a minor official of a synagogue, having limited ceremonial or administrative functions.

  2. (in the early Middle Ages) a government official charged with collecting taxes.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Gabbai1

Literally, “treasurer”
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Example Sentences

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Mikulincer was known as the gabbai of the synagogue, leading its day-to-day operations.

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Inmates periodically hold an informal vote to elect a “gabbai” to run the shul, which is currently led by a Hasidic man from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who is locked up for arson and corporate fraud.

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“It might be that the gabbai was during the week working against you on a campaign but now is calling you up for an aliyah,” he said, describing people of different political persuasions taking on roles in a worship service together. “It’s an oasis of friendship and understanding in an increasingly partisan town.”

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That brings me back to the remarkable photo taken this year by David Strick of Edith Umugiraneza, Dario Gabbai, Yevnigue Salibian, Sara Pol-Lim and Aracely Garrido.

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This is an important year, said David Dario Gabbai, a 93-year-old survivor who traveled to Poland this week from his home in California.

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