Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Hasidic sect founded in Russia in the late 1700s that stresses the importance of religious study.
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- noun a member of the Lubavitch movement; a follower of Chabad Hasidism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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While a friend of mine was working as a programmer for the NYFD one of his co-workers was Lubavitch I’d always heard it referred to as Lubavitcher, but that’s another conversation.
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Penansky calls a Lubavitcher phone line every morning to hear a tape-recorded discussion of some aspect of Jewish law.
Chicago Reader 2010
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But as the Lubavitcher Rebbe argued, they should have a moment of silence where students can choose to reflect on something higher if they so choose.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Tim Tebow Infiltrates the Secular Cathedral of Sport Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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A chipper confidence and a can-do spirit tempered by humble awe for the larger-than-life vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the role they play in its fulfillment.
Baila Olidort: U.K. Chief Rabbi Shares Lessons In Leadership At Chabad Conference Baila Olidort 2011
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In their earlier portfolios, such as those on German "Indians" and the world-wide doppelgangers of Brooklyn's Lubavitcher headquarters, there was a hint of irony.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Black Cowboys Blake Gopnik 2010
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But as the Lubavitcher Rebbe argued, they should have a moment of silence where students can choose to reflect on something higher if they so choose.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Tim Tebow Infiltrates the Secular Cathedral of Sport Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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They listened intently as U.K. Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talked about the lessons he took from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, "one of the greatest Jewish leaders, not just of our time, but of all time," in cultivating his own sense of Jewish responsibility and leadership.
Baila Olidort: U.K. Chief Rabbi Shares Lessons In Leadership At Chabad Conference Baila Olidort 2011
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They listened intently as U.K. Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talked about the lessons he took from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, "one of the greatest Jewish leaders, not just of our time, but of all time," in cultivating his own sense of Jewish responsibility and leadership.
Baila Olidort: U.K. Chief Rabbi Shares Lessons In Leadership At Chabad Conference Baila Olidort 2011
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A chipper confidence and a can-do spirit tempered by humble awe for the larger-than-life vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the role they play in its fulfillment.
Baila Olidort: U.K. Chief Rabbi Shares Lessons In Leadership At Chabad Conference Baila Olidort 2011
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To these secular men, I thought, the assorted confessional categories — Shia, Sunni, Sufi, and for that matter Presbyterian and Lubavitcher — were interchangeable and identically passé.
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