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- noun beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews
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After all, theologically speaking Chassidism is far further removed from Orthodox Judaism than is Reform Judaism, yet the Orthodoxy accepts it because the Chassidim in turn accept Orthodox rabbinical authority.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Chassidism and its necessary dependence upon the Zaddik offered the masses the means of this forgetfulness of self through faith.
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The bulwark of Rabbinism and the citadel of Chassidism protected them against alien influences.
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Chassidism replaced Talmudic ratiocination by exalted religious sentiment.
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Chassidism, have been of fundamental importance in these departments.
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The comparatively modern Chassidism, anticipating Mazzini, teaches that every nation and language has a special channel through which it receives God's gifts.
Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 Israel Zangwill 1895
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Chassidism, though, as its name ( 'Saintliness') implies, it was innocent enough at its initiation.
Judaism Israel Abrahams 1891
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But there was nevertheless, as Dr. Schechter has shown, considerable spiritual worth and beauty in Chassidism.
Judaism Israel Abrahams 1891
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Kabbala and its offspring Chassidism, hostile and ruinous to Judaism and
Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878
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Prior to Chassidism it had to have been Ashkenazic
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