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zaddik

or ٳ·徱

[ Sephardic Hebrew tsah-deek; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tsah-dik ]

noun

Hebrew.
plural zaddikim
  1. a person of outstanding virtue and piety.
  2. the leader of a Hasidic group.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of zaddik1

ṣaī, literally, “righteous”
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Example Sentences

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She was named after her grandmother, Golde Freidchen, the wife of our grandfather, the Gaon Rabbi Akiba, Zecher Zaddik livrochoh.

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Jews do not talk of saints, but prize the zaddik, the "righteous person."

Schwester Selma Mayer of Jerusalem, 92, is also revered as something of an angel, certainly as a zaddik.

Buber, a leading collector of Hasidic lore, is in a sense himself a zaddik.

Johanan, R., 79, 306, 309, 327 Johanan ben Zakkai, 222, 258, 403 John the Baptist, 434 John Hyrcanus, 419 Jonah, 127, 250 Jose, R., 46, 227 Joseph Ibn Zaddik, 136 Joseph, Morris, 116, 179, 405, 420, 453 f.,

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