Pronounced: khah-SID-ik, Origin: Hebrew, a stream within ultra-Orthodox Judaism that grew out of an 18th-century mystical revival movement.
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The seventh leader of the Chabad Hasidic sect built a global outreach movement.
The Jews of Scandinavia
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