rebbe

Definitions

Examples

• The bottom line is simple: if the Rebbe issues a directive, the Chassidim carry it out.

• So says Grand Rabbi Y. A. Korff, Rebbe of the Zhvil-Mezbuz Hasidic sect.

• Being obedient disciples, they got in their carriages and followed their rebbe.

• The rebbe looked at one of the peasants and put out his hand with his palm to the ceiling.

• Everyone circled around the rebbe and the Jews as they walked to the center of the dance floor.

• When times were bad, and her husband came home with his goods unsold, she borrowed and begged, till the rebbe's fee was produced.

• Uncles and cousins came, and perhaps my brother's rebbe, to examine his pupil in the hearing of the family.

• The rebbe put his hands behind his coat tails, declining the traveller's hospitality.

• I continued reading by the hour, after the rebbe was gone, though I understood about one word in ten.

• We sat one on each side of the rebbe, reading the Hebrew sentences turn and turn about.