Lubavitcher
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- noun
- /luˈbɑːvɪtʃər/
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Lubavitcher
- Larry and his brother were the founders of the Chabad in the 5 Towns who brought the shaliach because they wanted somewhere to continue davening the Lubavitcher nusach.
- Lubavitcher Hasidic
Examples
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The Mar'ina Roshche synagogue, built in 1929, continued to stay open, functioning as the underground center for the Lubavitcher Hasidim in the Soviet Union.
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The Lubavitcher community organizes outreach programs to help other Jews reconnect with their heritage.
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The Lubavitcher Rebbe was a confidante of nearly every prime minister and president of the state.
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In the 1990s, this synagogue became the headquarters for the Chief Lubavitcher Hasidic rabbi of Russia.
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Two Lubavitcher Hasidic synagogues, located in the heavily Jewish-populated suburbs of Mar'ina Roshche and Cherkizovo, were built in the 1920s.
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Shmuel Berl, a sixty-seven-year-old Jew from a Lubavitcher Hasidic family, told me that he prayed in the small hall because "The Hasidim used to pray in the small hall."
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However, it was rumored that Baron Poliakov, the rich railroad magnate who paid for the erection of the synagogue in 1891, built the small hall so that the local Lubavitcher Hasidim would have a place to worship.
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A Lubavitcher often attends community gatherings to celebrate important religious events.
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As a Lubavitcher, he adheres to the teachings of the Chabad philosophy.
Synonyms
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A member of a Jewish group that follows strict religious rules and values prayer, joy, and close community
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lubavitcher comes from Lubavitch, the name of a small town where the Chabad movement began. The town's name comes from an old Slavic root meaning 'love', so a Lubavitcher is literally someone 'from Lubavitch' and therefore a follower of the Chabad community.