zaddik
Americannoun
plural
zaddikim-
a person of outstanding virtue and piety.
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the leader of a Hasidic group.
Etymology
Origin of zaddik
ṣaddīg, literally, “righteous”
Example Sentences
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She was named after her grandmother, Golde Freidchen, the wife of our grandfather, the Gaon Rabbi Akiba, Zecher Zaddik livrochoh.
From Project Gutenberg
Jews do not talk of saints, but prize the zaddik, the "righteous person."
From Time Magazine Archive
Schwester Selma Mayer of Jerusalem, 92, is also revered as something of an angel, certainly as a zaddik.
From Time Magazine Archive
Buber, a leading collector of Hasidic lore, is in a sense himself a zaddik.
From Time Magazine Archive
Johanan, R., 79, 306, 309, 327 Johanan ben Zakkai, 222, 258, 403 John the Baptist, 434 John Hyrcanus, 419 Jonah, 127, 250 Jose, R., 46, 227 Joseph Ibn Zaddik, 136 Joseph, Morris, 116, 179, 405, 420, 453 f.,
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