Hasidism

1 As text on the screen briefly informs us, Hasidism is "a highly insular group of ultra-orthodox Jews," Yiddish speaking, suspicious of outsiders and bound by adherence to very strict rules of worship and life.

2 Hasidism invaded Podolia and Volhynia, swept over Galicia and Hungary, and found adherents even in many a large community in Western Russia and Prussia.

3 He was talking about Rabbi Elijah of Vilna, the eighteenth-century opponent of Hasidism.

4 Rapoport, we have seen, contended with Hasidism in a witty pamphlet.

5 Hasidism had its cradle in Ukraine dating back 300 years and Ukraine had one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe before the war, estimated at between 250,000-500,000 mostly Hasidic Jews.

6 Had it not been for that, she never would have delved into Hasidism, which the former tenant had practiced, and which continues to figure prominently in her novels.

7 She was born in 1916 into a family of seven children in the Hungarian village of Kalev, revered as the hometown of a founder of Hungarian Hasidism.

8 With meticulous sections on Talmudists, neo-Confucians, medieval theologians and Kabbalists, Armstrong continues the story through the Great Awakening, Hasidism and the rise of modern fundamentalism — easily the most misguided religious development in the book.

9 Gender separation is so extreme among the Hasidism that men and women cannot even shake hands.

10 “I shook my head no, even though I thought that all of her wigs looked pretty fake,” Ms. Deitsch writes in “Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping my Family.”

11 Mr. Rudavsky said in an interview that he believed “A Life Apart” was the first feature-length documentary released in American theaters that explored Hasidism.

12 I was beginning to find everything connected with Reb Saunders and Hasidism distasteful.

13 He told me he had read another book on Hasidism, and while the author hadn’t accused the tzaddikim of encouraging drinking, he had accused them of almost everything else.

14 The two are members of Hasidism’s Chabad movement.

15 But though often obscured and crushed by formal systems, mysticism is deeply seated in the religious feelings, and the race which has developed the Cabbalah and Hasidism cannot be accused of lack of it.

16 In the ’60s, he sought to move beyond the confines of Hasidism and to learn why so many youths were abandoning their roots and looking East for spiritual nourishment.

17 Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper explains Hasidic culture using costumes and daily objects They give an insight into Hasidism, a Jewish revival movement that arose in Eastern Europe in the late eighteenth-century.

18 Instead, the rabbi kidnapped the boy and persuaded him to reject his family and embrace a zealous form of Hasidism.

19 Public health experts connected the outbreak to Jewish pilgrims who had not been vaccinated and went to Ukraine to visit the grave of a founder of a branch of Hasidism.

20 For a long time there was terrible bitterness between the Mitnagdim, the opponents of Hasidism, and the followers of the Besht.