Word: hasidim
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...dresses and old men in untrimmed grey beards, broad-brimmed felt hats and ankle-length black coats. Now this colorful way of life is coming to an end, partly because of a disconcerting complication. New 22-story apartment buildings are replacing many of the tenements of Williamsburg, but the Hasidim cannot live in them: they are forbidden to ride elevators on the Sabbath...
...main point of the saying you are quoting from my Tales of the Hasidim [March 23] is expressed not in the words you quote ["What the Torah teaches us is this: none but God can command us to destroy man"] but in the sequel: "And if the very smallest angel comes after the command has been given and cautions us: 'Lay not thy hand upon . . .' we must obey him." I would think it desirable to draw your readers' attention to this part of the saying...
Miraculous Rabbis. The people of New Square are Hasidim, adherents of a Jewish mystical movement that sprang from the ghettos of eastern Europe in the 18th century in reaction against the rigid intellectual austerity of Diaspora Judaism. The Hasidim were orthodox in observing the law, but their special emphasis was on love and joy and they gathered around holy men, or zaddikim, whom they believed to have miraculous powers...
...live unto themselves, without subjecting their schoolboys to jeers at their traditional black coats, round black hats, Orthodox Jewish earlocks. But they soon found that things were not that simple. Zoning laws and sewage disposal, bonds and deeds and building permits, suits and countersuits have plagued the gentle Hasidim of New Square...
...bearded and babushkaed fanatics from Brooklyn and crowd them into jerry-built cottages. The current standoff: New Square has applied for incorporation as a village, which would give it control over its own zoning and building, but the township refuses to process the application and is suing the Hasidim for the deed to their streets and sewage system, which they are required by law to surrender (New Square refuses to turn over the deeds until the township acts on its application for incorporation...