Chabad

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Pronunciations

chabad (chuh-BAHD) listen
chabad (chah-BAHD) listen

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Definitions

  • n. An outreach-oriented branch of Hasidic Judaism that follows the Lubavitcher Rebbe and has thousands of branches around the world, including at many college campuses.

Example Sentences

  • "Students at UC San Diego love to go to the Chabad rabbi's home for Shabbat dinner."

  • "To the hardcore Chasidim, I was probably as good as goy, and I never took to being mkareved (brought into Orthodoxy) by Chabad (religiously curious, I’ve always been the perfect bait)." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish
  • Modern Hebrew

Etymology

  • חב"ד, a Hebrew acronym for: חָכְמָה‎ khokhmá 'wisdom', בִּינָה‎ biná, 'understanding', דַּעַת‎ dá'at, 'knowledge'

      • Who Uses This

      • Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
      • Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)

      Regions

      • Australia / New Zealand
      • South Africa
      • Great Britain
      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).

      Alternative Spellings

      Habad

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