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tzaddik

n. (context Judaism English) A very righteous person, especially a Hassidic spiritual leader.

Usage examples of "tzaddik".

A tzaddik is literally able to work miracles-and remember, at some moment in time you will be a tzaddik just as surely as at this moment you are reading these words.

This is the power of your tzaddik, but it is not fully realized until you actualize it.

I argued with the Tzaddik, I told him that only a madman could believe in prayer after the Holocaust.

Tzaddik to my hosts, and everyone frowned and shook my hand, until I actually almost began to feel like a Tzaddik who could do no wrong.

I was beginning to realize that Tahlmeade was not merely a fixer, an intermediary, as the ambassador mistakenly thought, but that he must be the Tzaddik himself.

Tahlmeade, who had inherited the second sight and the mantle of the Tzaddik, learned to use them to protect those in his charge: all the Jews.

Others say that whenever one tzaddik dies, another good man is appointed by God to that office, without his knowing he has been so honored.

Still others say that there is really only one tzaddik, who can be in thirty-six places simultaneously, if he chooses.

Now I thank you for your good offices, Tzaddik Shimon, and I bid you farewell.

It was the miraculous means by which Tzaddiks could help and protect other Jews who were in trouble.

Potato soup is waiting, whenever you tzaddiks decide you’d rather eat than philosophize.