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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 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.

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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.