Word: gartel
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...over simply by prayer. A young Lubavitch missionary, in the midst of a ten-minute interview with the busy Greene, suddenly looked out the window at the setting sun, realized that it was time for prayer, and, asking Greene's pardon, abruptly stopped the conversation. Putting on a gartel (a cord round the waist that symbolizes the biblical "girding of the loins"), he turned to the window to pray. Greene was so impressed that he invited the young man back for further conversations and gradually became a fully observant Lubavitcher...
...farbrengung, an annual festivity in celebration of Joseph Isaac's release from Communist prison. The courtyard adjoining the Brooklyn headquarters was jammed with Lubavitcher men at benches and tables, many of them in long black coats or full jackets and large-brimmed black hats. Some wore the gartel, a black silk cord bound around the waist to symbolize the distinction between the "higher" and "lower" parts of man. As soon as blue-eyed, black-bearded Menachem Mendel arrived, he was handed a bottle of whisky, which he passed to outstretched hands below him, and almost immediately bottles of whisky...
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