Rebbe
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Spiritual leader in the Hasidic movement, and the personalities of its dynasties.
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Tzadik
Title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters.
Adapting former Kabbalistic theosophical terminology, Hasidic philosophy internalised mystical experience, emphasising devekut attachment to its Rebbe leadership, who embody and channel the Divine flow of blessing to the world.
List of Hasidic dynasties
Each leader of the dynasty is often known as an ADMOR (abbreviation for ADoneinu MOreinu veRabeinu – "our master, our teacher, and our rabbi"), or simply as Rebbe (or "the Rebbe"), and at times called the "Rav" ("rabbi"), and sometimes referred to in English as a "Grand Rabbi";
Rosh yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva (ראש ישיבה, pl.
In Hasidic Judaism, the role of rosh yeshiva is secondary to the Rebbe, who is head of the Hasidic dynasty that controls it.
Chabad
For other uses of "Chabad", see Chabad (disambiguation).
In the 1930s, the sixth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, moved the center of the Chabad movement from Russia to Poland.
Rav
Hebrew generic term for a teacher of Torah or other spiritual guide.
In some Hasidic groups, the Rebbe is also referred to as a Rav; in other circles, the Rav is distinct from the Rebbe and is the highest Dayan (judge of a Jewish religious court of law) of the group.
Hasidic philosophy
Hasidic philosophy or Hasidism (חסידות), alternatively transliterated as Hasidut or Chassidus, consists of the teachings of the Hasidic movement, which are the teachings of the Hasidic rebbes, often in the form of commentary on the Torah (the Five books of Moses) and Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism).
Misnagdim
Religious movement among the Jews of Eastern Europe which resisted the rise of Hasidism in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Opponents of Hasidim held that Hasidim viewed their rebbes in an idolatrous fashion.
Hasidic Judaism
Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contemporary Western Ukraine during the 18th century, and spread rapidly throughout Eastern Europe.
Hasidim, the adherents of Hasidism, are organized in independent sects known as "courts" or dynasties, each headed by its own hereditary leader, a Rebbe.
Posek
Term in Jewish law for a "decisor", a legal scholar who determines the position of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.
Most rely on the rav in their community (in Hasidic communities, sometimes the rebbe) or the leading posek.