Definition of "gabbai" [gabbai]

• An assistant in a synagogue (noun)

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• "Although Bazaman may be best known as the gabbai, or elected lay leader of Beth Jacob, he started on a his career of synagogue service on a two-wheeler."
• "I'm talking about the heated debate that has pitted brother against brother, rabbi against gabbai: the hubbub over how to spell the Jewish Festival of Lights."
• "The scrolls lie in the cemetery next to the long-serving, much-loved gabbai a rabbi's assistant who also often assists when the Torah is read in services of that synagogue, who'd died just before the storm -- an honor to both man and scrolls."