To live in Jerusalem now was “to be squeezed by various fundamentalists on all sides,” Bauer said, including the ever-growing community of the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, members of the various Hasidic sects, each with their own rebbes, who would throw stones at your car if they saw you driving on the Sabbath. ❋ Mark Jacobson (2010)
He distinguished himself in school and studied under many renown European rebbes. ❋ Debbie Macomber (2010)
As Hasidim — ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to sectarian communities, worshiping and working as followers of specific rebbes — they are set apart from assimilated, mainstream American Jews. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With all the opposition on the part of the rebbes to secularization, Kalish presents a memorable account of an “interview” for a prospective bride conducted by women from the strict Gerer Hasidic court, where the topic of discussion was none other than the works of the Polish novelist Gabriela Zapolska. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In Judaism, the Hasidim are celebrated for their joyful song and dance, and Hasidic rebbes are revered for their mystical role in making the Shekhinah, or Presence of God, available to members of the community. ❋ Unknown (2008)
His role models have shifted from druggie rock stars to wise rebbes, and on his days back home in the "wilds of Westchester," instead of quoting bawdy rap lyrics like other kids his age, he delights in recounting stories of the sages. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Hitler was stringent but you can't outstringent those rebbes. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
This will be a teaching-semicha (along ‘Rav Mehanekh’ lines) designed to create high school rebbes for pluralistic/cross-communal North American high schools and not an ordination designed to create halakhic decisors (poskim). ❋ Unknown (2007)
Throw in Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, the kkk, neo-nazis, James Dobson and what the heck, all the people praying for the rapture and all the Mullahs spewing hate in the Madrassas and all the extremist rebbes teaching that Jews and Muslims will never make peace .. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The late rebbes followers not only thought of him as a great scientist he was educated as an engineer at the universities of Moscow, Berlin and the Sorbonne they also believed he performed miracles. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The rebbes of Ger were outspoken advocates of settling the land. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The three Vizhnitzer rebbes who survived the Holocaust all settled in Israel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
■ Because I can visit Mea She'arim on Friday nights, the Jerusalem neighborhood where the ultra-Orthodox gather with their rebbes at a festive meal and spiritual happening - a tisch - that is at once other-worldly, bizarre and deeply satisfying. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ours is a generation not of chassidim, but of rebbes ❋ Unknown (2010)
From 1950 to his death in 1994, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh of the line of Lubavitcher rebbes, or grand rabbis, revived and transformed the almost moribund tiny group of Hasidim - mystical ultra-Orthodox Jews - that he inherited from his father-in-law, the sixth rebbe. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Hasidism is characterized as well by its reliance on rebbes, charismatic leaders thought to be mystic intermediaries. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As Hasidism spread, local groups, called courts, developed under their own rebbes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yet from the ashes, literally a few of yeshiva teachers that stepped up to be rosh yeshivas to rebuild, and a few rebbes that survived (or children of rebbes or nephew's of rebbes) to recreate their chassidus, the Torah world rebuilt. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The religious leaders who are keen to hammer out a compromise are members of the Rabbinical Committee for the Sanctity of the Sabbath, which represents leaders of various mainstream Haredi factions, including the Hasidic rebbes, the so-called Lithuanian or non-Hasidic yeshiva heads, and the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox.
