maggid

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Etymology

From Hebrew מַגִּיד.

Noun

maggid (plural maggids or maggidim)

  1. (Judaism) A teacher of the Torah in Eastern Europe.
    • 1947, Martin Buber, “Introduction”, in Olga Marx, transl., Tales of the Hasidim, third edition, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, published 1991, →ISBN, section 6, page 31:
      The Great Maggid’s youngest disciple, Rabbi Israel, maggid of Koznitz, manifested a gentler, more composed form of Rabbi Shelomo’s power of praying.
      [original: כוח התפילה של רבי שלמה חוזר בצורה רכה ומתונה יותר באחד התלמידים הצעירים ביותר של המגיד הגדול, רבי ישראל המגיד מקוזניץ.]
      kóaḥ ha-tfilá shel rabí shlomó ḥozér b-tsurá raká u-mtuná yotér b-eḥád ha-talmidím ha-ts'irím b-yotér shel ha-magíd ha-gadól, rabí yisraél ha-magíd mi-koznits

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