hasid in English
noun
1
a member of a strictly orthodox Jewish sect in Palestine in the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc that opposed Hellenizing influences on their faith and supported the Maccabean revolt.
The man with the pony tail in front of me, together with the Hassid with the long peyos to his left, shouted out the words: ‘Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.’
2
an adherent of Hasidism.
Agnon chose as his subject the declining Jewish life of the Hasidim (Jewish mystical sect founded in Poland in 1750) and later, when he migrated from Poland to Palestine in 1908, the life of the East European diaspora.
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1. Another, Isaiah Hasid (a brother-in-law of the Shabbethaian Judah Hasid), who lived in Mannheim, secretly claimed to be the resurrected Messiah, although publicly he had abjured Shabbethaian beliefs.
2. My father was a Hasid but he wanted us to know the Scriptures just the same.
3. Shimon Grosskot, a Bratslav Hasid with a thick beard, has a history with Ambash that goes back to France