1. Hasidim: The name means “pious ones” or “saints.”

2. 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.

3. The Hasidim split into three groups: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes.

4. My father was a Hasid but he wanted us to know the Scriptures just the same.

5. On more than one occasion, Greek troops attacked groups of Hasidim fighters on the Sabbath.

6. Shimon Grosskot, a Bratslav Hasid with a thick beard, has a history with Ambash that goes back to France

7. Dining is B.Y.O., for the time being, but takeout from the Mr. Broadway Kosher Restaurant offers the added benefit of spotting black-hatted Hasidim.

8. Palmer McGill University, Montreal [email protected] ABSTRACT: Daniel Ambash (1955–) is a Franco-Israeli citizen and follower of Rabbi Yisrael’s revitalization movement within the “Na Nach” Breslover Hasidim