Chassidut

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Chassidut (uncountable)

  1. Hasidism; Hasidic philosophy, Hasidic thought
    • 1997 February 10, “Sermon on Parshat Tetzave”, in Living With Moshiach[1]:
      Let us take a moment to understand the significance of Shushan Purim according to Chasidus.
  2. The philosophy or beliefs of a specific branch of Hasidism
    • 2004 November 23, Lisa, “The Fight Over The Cornerstone”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated[2] (Usenet):
      As R' Meir said, you can eat the fruit and throw away the rind. Not everything in Chabad hassidut is necessarily passuled by the recent craziness.
  3. Piousness
    • 2024, David Golinkin, “Should the cantor pray slowly or shorten the service?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 5:
      The Geonim report that the Amora Rav practiced the ten measures of ḥassidut following his teacher Rabbi Yehudah Hanasi. Here is the tenth measure according to the version found in Sha'arei Teshuvah, No. 178.