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zaddik
[ Sephardic Hebrew tsah-deek; Ashkenazic Hebrew, English tsah-dik ]
noun
- a person of outstanding virtue and piety.
- the leader of a Hasidic group.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of zaddik1
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Example Sentences
Maimonides knew Joseph ibn Zaddik favorably, but he was not familiar with the "Microcosm."
Reward and punishment of the real kind, Ibn Zaddik thinks, are not in this world but in the next.
In his discussion of the attributes Ibn Zaddik offers little if anything that is new.
We must now review briefly the practical part of Ibn Zaddik's philosophy as it is found in the fourth part of the "Microcosm."
Saadia and Ibn Zaddik show clearly that they did not understand the precise meaning of the definition.
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