zaddik
Americannoun
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a person of outstanding virtue and piety.
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the leader of a Hasidic group.
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Etymology
Origin of zaddik
ṣaddīg, literally, “righteous”
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Schwester Selma Mayer of Jerusalem, 92, is also revered as something of an angel, certainly as a zaddik.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jews do not talk of saints, but prize the zaddik, the "righteous person."
From Time Magazine Archive
Buber, a leading collector of Hasidic lore, is in a sense himself a zaddik.
From Time Magazine Archive
He drew a beautiful picture of the ideal zaddik, who is "so absorbed in meditation on the Divine wisdom that he cannot descend to the lower steps upon which ordinary people stand."
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
The Hasidim were orthodox in observing the law, but their special emphasis was on love and joy and they gathered around holy men, or zaddikim, whom they believed to have miraculous powers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides recognized zaddikim, there are according to Jewish lore a group of hidden zaddikim in every generation, believed to number at least 36, upon whose merit the existence of the world depends.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today three of the most illustrious zaddikim live in the U.S., notably the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Twersky, from the Ukrainian town of Skvir and known as "the Skvirer Rabbi," who came to Brooklyn in 1948.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The publishers of Slavuta, however, having the Polish rabbis and zaddikim on their side, continued to publish the Talmud, regardless of the protests of Rabbi Akiba Eger and the "great ones" of Lithuania.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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