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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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
Jews do not talk of saints, but prize the zaddik, the "righteous person."
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.
Vitebsk, Menahem Mendel of, zaddik, on Haskalah, 135.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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