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rebbi

rebbi is the alternative form of rebbe.

Meaning of rebbe

Noun

rebbe (plural rebbes)

  1. (Judaism) The spiritual leader of a Hasidic Jewish community.
    • Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022
    Synonyms:
    admor
  2. (Judaism) A teacher of Torah, especially in a primary school.
    • Since their was no kollel that Shlomo could enter immediately, he would stay in the house and learn all day. When I came home at night, he would be my own private rebbe-chavrusa.1993, Meir Birnbaum with Yonasan Rosenblum, Lieutenant Birnbaum: A Soldier’s Story, page 230

Forms of rebbi

pluralrebbis

Questions about rebbi

What is rebbi the alternative form of?
Rebbi is the alternative form of rebbe.

Words near rebbi in the dictionary

  1. rebbe cards
  2. Rebbeck
  3. rebbes
  4. rebbetzin
  5. rebbetzins
  6. rebbi
  7. rebbis
  8. rebbishe
  9. rebble
  10. REBCO
  11. REBCOs

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