zaddik
noun
a person of outstanding virtue and piety.
tzaddik
-
a variation of
zaddik.
Example Sentences
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I couldn’t get over the fact that this was Danny Saunders, the son of Reb Saunders, the tzaddik.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
“So pious, he can’t even look at a woman. A true tzaddik, that Alter Rosen.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
A tzaddik must know how to suffer for his people, he said.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
To whom does a tzaddik dedicate his life?
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
They clung to him as though he were the reincarnation of the Besht, as though he were their student tzaddik, so to speak.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
