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maggid

[ Ashkenazic Hebrew, English mah-gid; Sephardic Hebrew mah-geed ]

noun

Judaism.
plural maggidim [mah-, gee, -dim, mah-gee-, deem], maggids.
  1. (especially in Poland and Russia) a wandering Jewish preacher whose sermons contained religious and moral instruction and words of comfort and hope.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of maggid1

First recorded in 1890–95, maggid is from the Hebrew word maggīdh literally, narrator, messenger
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Example Sentences

It took nine pages of results to unearth another unrelated Schwadron who is a Republican candidate for office in Missouri, an unrecognized Schwadron survivor in an obituary, or “The Legendary Maggid of Jerusalem, Harav Shalom Schwadron,” who we sometimes claim or not.

From Salon

Gila Fine, editor-in-chief of religious publisher Maggid Books in Jerusalem, recalls that in her Orthodox school girls were not taught the Talmud.

From BBC

Yeah, that's probably a good reason to refrain from letting your animal recite the Maggid.

From Salon

The great Rav Rotchinsky from Brody was to deliver a sermon; and so the swarthy, eager-eyed, curly-haired, shrewd-visaged cobblers, tailors, cigar-makers, peddlers, and beggars, who made up the congregation, had assembled in their fifties to enjoy the dialectical subtleties, the theological witticisms and the Talmudical anecdotes which the reputation of the Galician Maggid foreshadowed.

"Be silent, all!" thundered the Maggid, suddenly recovering himself.

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