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hasidim
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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also Chasidim , 1812, adherents of a conservative Jewish religious movement founded 1750 by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer Baal Shem Tobh, from Hebrew hasidhim , literally "pious ones," plural of hasidh "kind, pious." Earlier used in Hebrew of adherents of an ...
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All the crippled pilgrims in the Via Dolorosa, the black-hatted Hasidim, the Greek priests, Armenian monks, the men at prayer on patterned carpets in the mosquesthese streams of belief made me uneasy.
The Pharisees, Hasidim, and others resenting these impieties rose presently in a revolt that was put down with the greatest cruelty by the reigning Alexander Jannaeus (r.