Sentences with phrase «hasidic leadership»

As a reward for his faithful service to New Square's Hasidic leadership, he immediately became a county legislator and chairman of the powerful Budget and Finance Committee.

None of them will discuss any policy that might threaten the interests of Rockland's Hasidic leadership.

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He is of significance for Judaism not only as religious philosopher, translator of the Bible, and translator and re-creator of Hasidic legends and thought, but also as a religious personality who has provided leadership of a rare quality during the time of his people's greatest trial and suffering since the beginning of the diaspora.

And he is haunted by reminders of the two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his mentor and professor — a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism — and an angelic six - year - old mathematical genius who is heir to the leadership of a Hasidic sect.