Word: remnant
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...outsiders have made the effort to try to understand this paradoxical sect of highly organized, missionary-minded mystics, strongest remnant of the great age of Hasidism, that inspired Eastern European Jewry during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the March and April issues of Commentary, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner of Temple Israel in South Orange, N.J. presents the results of a year-long study of the Brooklyn Lubavitchers...
Such occult phenomena, Wiesinger contends, are caused by a part of the soul behaving with the characteristics of a pure spirit-a mode of action which "is a vestigial remnant of the preternatural powers with which our first parents were endowed before the Fall." One of the characteristics of a pure spirit is that its knowledge does not come through sense perception, but intuitively and at will. Hence the telepathic and clairvoyant abilities of certain individuals in a state, says Wiesinger, of partial liberation from the body. Conversely, the partly liberated soul may be that of a dead person bound...
...here might be pretty lonely. If they do make a major effort against us, we'll at least serve a useful purpose in diverting them. If I can survive the first blows, I'll be able to do a lot of hitting myself. Wars are won by remnants, and the Sixth Fleet is going to be a pretty sturdy remnant. All I have to do is survive the first 48 hours. And I'm going...
Fourth Day. When dawn broke over the tank battlefield of Abu Aweigila, the Israels discovered that in the darkness the Egyptians had pulled out what was left of their armor, to scurry to safety west of the Suez. A considerable remnant got away, but the Egyptians' one big punch had failed...
Leavitt and Peirce, last remnant of the "old Harvard," changed ownership this week for the third time in 72 years, but the traditions of the "gentleman's smoke shop" will continue almost unaltered...