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Definition of Chasidic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Jewish Hasidim or its members or their beliefs and practices.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chasidic

Literary usage of Chasidic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Jewish Science: Divine Healing in Judaism, with Special Reference to the by Alfred G. Moses (1916)
"The chasidic Movement was in the first place a distinct protest against the rigid legalism that had crept into the Jewish Faith after the Fall of the Second ..."

2. An Overview of Affirmative Action: Hearing Before the Committee on the edited by Hank Brown (1998)
"On September 22, 1995, The New York Times reported the case of an chasidic Jew who "won a four-year battle to qualify for the SBA's Minority Enterprise ..."

3. The Jewish Travel Guide by Betsy Sheldon (2001)
"The half- day tour of one of Brooklyn's chasidic neighborhoods includes ... Oddly, the Web site emphasizes that the tours are led by friendly chasidic Jews ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and in the freedom of the spirit, while •ison was distinctly subordinate to faith. He who realized chasidic Meals was " righteous ..."

5. Rome and Jerusalem: A Study in Jewish Nationalism by Moses Hess (1918)
"... proclaimed the originator of the Reform movement, so it was through Israel Bal Shem that the chasidic sect of the Slavic countries was called into life. ..."

6. Whither Human Rights in Russia: Congressional Hearing edited by Christopher H. Smith (2000)
"... -chasidic community, denying its legal status as a "traditional religion" and thus disqualifying it from holding property that belonged to its ..."

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