What is a Hasidic rabbi called?
What is a Hasidic rabbi called? Spiritual leader—The spiritual head of a Hasidic movement is called a rebbe (/ˈrɛbə/). His followers would address him as "The Rebbe" or refer to him when speaking to others as "the Rebbe" or "my Rebbe". How many Hasidic dynasties are there? Today there are twelve principal Hasidic courts, though many of the smaller ones still exist. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a community of Orthodox, but increasingly westernized, Jews from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland. What do you call a rabbi in Hebrew? In Hebrew, rabbi gained an irregular plural form: רַבָּנִים (rabbanim [ʁabaˈnim]). The...