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Chasidism

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Hasidism, Chasidism
1. the beliefs and practices of a mystical Jewish sect, founded in Poland about 1750, characterized by an emphasis on prayer, religious zeal, and joy.
2. the beliefs and practices of a pious sect founded in the 3rd century B.C. to resist Hellenizing tendencies and to promote strict observance of Jewish laws and rituals. Also Assideanism. — Hasidic, adj. — Hasidim, n. pi.
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Noun1.Chasidism - beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews
Chassidism, Hassidism, Hasidism
Orthodox Judaism - beliefs and practices of a Judaic sect that strictly observes Mosaic law
Chabad Hasidism, Chabad - a form of Hasidism practiced by Lithuanian and Russian Jews under communist rule; the beliefs and practices of the Lubavitch movement
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84) Chasidism taught that d'veikut ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), cleaving to God, was the ultimate goal of religious life, a goal that the tzaddik could achieve directly but that the common person could reach only indirectly through cleaving to the tzaddik.
The Passover Haggadah: Moses and the human role in redemption by Arnow, David / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
The Pocket Dictionary of Judaism even takes Chasidim and Chasidism to be two different sects.
Confusing Judaism and Christianity in contemporary Chinese letters by Fu, Xiaowei / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
We see this clearly now in diverse ways in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam: Opus Dei, the so-called Evangelicals, Chabad Chasidism and other varieties of ultra-Orthodoxy, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The post-secular: a Jewish perspective by Diamond, James S. / Cross Currents
 
 
 
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