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Hasid (, "pious"; plural "Hasidim", חסידים) is a Jewish honorific, frequently used as a term of exceptional respect in the Talmudic and early medieval periods. In classic Rabbinic literature it differs from " Tzadik"-"righteous", by instead denoting one who goes beyond the legal requirements of ritual and ethical Jewish observance in daily life. The literal meaning of "Hasid" derives from Chesed-"kindness", the outward expression of love for God and other people. This spiritual devotion motivates pious conduct beyond everyday limits. The devotional nature of its description lent itself to a few Jewish movements in history being known as "Hasidim". Two of these derived from the Jewish mystical tradition, as it could tend towards piety over legalism.
As a personal honorific, both "Hasid" and "Tzadik" could be applied independently to a same individual with both different qualities. The 18th-century Vilna Gaon, for instance, while the head of Rabbinic opposition to the new Jewish mystical movement that itself became known as " Hasidism", was renowned for his righteous life. His scholarship became popularly honored with the formal title of " Genius", while amongst the Hasidic movement's leadership, despite his fierce opposition, he was respectfully referred to as "The Gaon, the Hasid from Vilna".
In the aggregate, it may refer to members of any of the following Jewish movements:
- Hasideans, pietists or "Jewish Puritans" of the Maccabean period, around the 2nd century BCE
- Chassidei Ashkenaz, ascetic German mystical-ethical pietists of the 12th and 13th centuries
Usage examples of "hasid".
The Nazis most despised the pious Hasids of the Aguda, and they knew the Bundists and the Communists would never act as their tools.
Hasidim believe, why do you still wear the attire and earlocks of Hasidim?
If you are lucky enough to cram yourself into the Lubavitcher synagogue in Brooklyn on a festive holiday, you may catch a glimpse of the dancing Hasidim, but you will find that nowadays vodka, rather than inspired song, induces bliss.
Habad system was more in touch with the needs of the coming times, for the Lubavitcher Hasidim are the only branch of the movement still thriving today.
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.