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Definition of "chasidic" []

  • Of or relating to the Jewish Hasidim or its members or their beliefs and practices (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "chasidic" in a sentence
  • "The plane left from NYC, a city with a really large number of Orthodox Jews ranging from mondern to various shades of chasidic such as Satmar, Borbor and Lubavitch."
  • "The setting for “The Dybbuk” is an Eastern European chasidic town where two friends pledge that if they have a son and a daughter, the two will eventually marry."
  • "While approximately 300 "neo-chasidic" and "renewal" Jews, led by Orthodox rabbis Zalman Schachter and Shlomo Carlebach, commemorated the moment atop the Empire State Building, the event generated little media coverage, and most people who recited the blessing simply did so as a postscript to daily morning services in Orthodox synagogues."