Hasidim

(has′ə dim′, -dēm′, ha sid′im, -sēd′-; Heb khä′sē dēm′)

plural noun sing. Hasid

the members of a sect of Jewish mystics that originated in Poland in the 18th cent. and that emphasizes joyful worship of an immanent God

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