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Mitnagged
[ English, Ashkenazic Hebrew mis-nah-gid; Sephardic Hebrew meet-nah-ged ]
noun
Judaism.
plural Mitnaggedim
- a member of an Orthodox Jewish movement in central or eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries that advocated an intellectual, legalistic approach to Judaism and opposed the emotional, mystical approach of the Hasidim. Compare Hasid ( def 1 ).
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Mitnagged1
1900鈥05; < Medieval Hebrew 尘颈迟丑苍补驳驳脓诲丑, Yiddish misnaged < Hebrew 尘颈迟丑苍补驳驳脓诲丑 opposing, opponent
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Rabbi Isaac, the rabid Mitnagged, could find but little to admire in the proposals of Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the ardent Hasid, and both were bitterly opposed to the view preached by Doctor Lilienthal, that the salvation of the Jews and Judaism would be brought about by a system of education adopted in accordance with an ukase by Nicholas.
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