Rebbe

//ˈɹɛbi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The spiritual leader of a Hasidic Jewish community. Judaism

    "Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave."

  2. 2
    A teacher of Torah, especially in a primary school. Judaism

    "Since their was no kollel that Shlomo could enter immediately, he would stay in the house and learn all day. When I came home at night, he would be my own private rebbe-chavrusa."

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"Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave."

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish רבי (rebe). Doublet of rabbi.

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