Hasid
- a member of a sect founded in Poland in the 18th century by Baal Shem-Tov and characterized by its emphasis on mysticism, prayer, ritual strictness, religious zeal, and joy.Compare Mitnagged.
- an Assidean.
Origin of Hasid
Examples from the Web for hasidim
Contemporary Examples of hasidim
In a matter of minutes, all the Hasidim and peasants were dancing furiously with one another.
While Hasidim take care of their own, they also get taxpayers to take care of them.
Today, the biggest problem for the Hasidim is a bunch of “trustafarian” poseurs on bicycles.
But what of the “religious hazard” of which the Hasidim speak?
Tunku Varadarajan weighs the arguments of the “trustafarian” poseurs on bicycles and the arguably overdressed Hasidim.
Historical Examples of hasidim
Now it was the turn of the Hasidim to retaliate on their persecutors.
In many towns of Lithuania the Hasidim became the object of persecution.
The ill success of the "Hasidim" failed to check the spread of sectarianism in Poland.
The most characteristic trait of the Hasidim, however, was their boundless veneration of the "holy" Tzaddiks.
From Vilna the signal was given for a new campaign against the Hasidim.
Word Origin and History for hasidim
Hasidim
also Chasidim, 1812, adherents of a conservative Jewish religious movement founded 1750 by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer Baal Shem Tobh, from Hebrew hasidhim, literally "pious ones," plural of hasidh "kind, pious." Earlier used in Hebrew of adherents of an anti-Hellenistic faction during the time of the Maccabean Wars.
Hasidim
Jews (see also Jews) who observe a form of strict Orthodox Judaism. They generally wear severely plain black and white clothes, and the men, following the requirements of Mosaic law, leave parts of their hair and whiskers untrimmed.