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- noun Plural form of
tzadik .
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However, not everyone is happy that assistance with contemporary military conflicts is being sought from tzadikim of past generations.
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Proof-texts for this approach are abundant: From the dictums of Pirkei Avot to "greet all people cheerfully" and "combine Torah with gainful employment" to the Hassidic world's emphasis on song in prayer (a la Carlebach) to the late German Jewish leader Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's famous announcement to his students that he was "off to the Alps for a few days to experience God's beauty on Earth," to Rav Kook's strong belief that the secular Zionists who pioneered the Jewish state were as much God's messengers as the greatest tzadikim because "they built this country with their blood, sweat and tears."
Your Moral Leader 2008
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