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Misnaged

Meaning of "Misnaged" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISNAGED

misˈnɑɡed


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISNAGED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misnaged is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MISNAGED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Misnagdim

Misnagdim or Mitnagdim is a Hebrew word meaning "opponents". It is the plural of misnaged or mitnaged. The term "Misnagdim" commonly refers to opponents of Hasidism. The term "Misnagdim" gained a common usage among Jews living in Europe as the term that referred to Ashkenazi Jews who opposed the rise and spread of early Hasidic Judaism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISNAGED

Mitnaged

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISNAGED

Misnagdim

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISNAGED

aged · apanaged · appanaged · caged · disadvantaged · discouraged · disengaged · encouraged · engaged · enraged · middle-aged · outraged · ravaged · teenaged · unaged · undamaged · unmanaged · unpaged · waged · well-managed

Synonyms and antonyms of Misnaged in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Misnaged
1,325 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
380 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
280 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
278 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
260 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
180 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
85 millions of speakers
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Misna
85 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
80 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
75 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
70 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
50 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
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Misnaged
10 millions of speakers
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Misnaged
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISNAGED»

Discover the use of Misnaged in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Misnaged and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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ספורי חסידים על התורה: A Collection of Inspirational ...
Tn the town of Pinsk there lived a misnaged, an opponent •of Chassidism, who while studying the Zohar came across a passage that he could not understand. He decided to visit the chassidic rebbe of the neighboring town, Reb Shlomo of ...
Shelomoh Yosef Zeṿin, Uri Kaploun, 1980
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The Chosen
“All my life I have studied Talmud and paid no attention to grammar. Now you tell me a person must know grammar to know Talmud. You see what happens when you have a father who is a Misnaged? Grammar yet. Mathematics nu, all right.
Chaim Potok, 1982
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From the Shtetl to America: Jacob Rassen's Lifetime Journey
My father was a Misnaged, so he couldn't find himself a right place among the Chasidim, so he stopped it at all to go to synagogue. So my mother was unhappy. [The Chasidic and Misnaged traditions were the two main branches of religious ...
Joshua Rassen, 2009
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Legends of the Hasidim
One of them was a misnaged. All of them lived in one large house, and they all learned together. They had two different ideas, and the misnaged sometimes spoke about things that were below their level. One time in the middle of learning, the ...
Jerome R. Mintz, 1968
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Joseph Perl's Revealer of secrets: the first Hebrew novel
him, and I sure hope he'll give you testimony the misnaged Wolf Dubner came to him to do something so the maid would abort the fetus. These are the words of # 28 From Reb Zelig Letitchiver To Reb Zaynvl Verkhievker Three days ago the ...
Joseph Perl, Dov Taylor, 1997
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In the Lions' Den: Ten Tales of the First Chassidim and ...
This misnaged (literally, "opponent") would often rail against the ways of chassidim, against their Rebbes and their Torah. In the course of conversation he showed the chassid the se/er No 'am Elimelech, which he'd placed beneath a bench.
Eliyahu Kitov, 2005
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Culture of Compassion: The Spirit of Polish Jewry from ...
And also the skeptical Misnaged who watched Levi Yitzchok's ecstatic prayer with amusement had to admit that something began to stir in him as Reb Levi Yitzchok wept over the prayer "And a Redeemer shall come to Zion and to those who ...
Hészel Klépfisz, 1983
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Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative
A Documentary Narrative Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall. religious types in Chagall's paintings may represent any traditional Jewish society, Hasidic or not. For Chagall, the opposition, Hasid/Misnaged, was equivalent to illogical / academic ...
Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall, 2004
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Ordinary Jews
He considered himself a Talmud scholar. At Slikhehs-time, he hustled himself to the pulpit and on Shabbes he read from the Torah scroll at the Zionist shul. It was said that this Rabbi was a fierce Misnaged, an opponent of Hassidism, that he'd ...
Yehoshue Perle, 2011
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The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
In the episode “Ina klem” (In a Quandary),the author writes: ikh muzdo zogn, az ven eskumt tsu kharaktereygnshaftn, helft nishttsimen izakhosed, a misnaged, anoyfgeklerter, a yid, akrist, a toter.shlekhter mentshn zenenshlekht, alts eyns in vos ...
Seth Wolitz, 2013

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISNAGED»

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Wordsmith: Chasid
But since those days, the term, among religious Jews, is used to identify (in contrast to the term “misnaged,” or in English, “the one who ... «Lubavitch.com, May 15»
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Why Rabbi Ysoscher Katz Left Satmars for Progressive Start-Up …
They sent him to Jerusalem to study at the Brisk Yeshiva — an odd choice, since that institution was affiliated with the historical Misnaged ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Sep 14»
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The 'Godot' We've All Been Waiting For
Here, for example, “His highness” becomes “Der rebbe reb Tsots,” and “critic” (flung as an insult by Estragon to Vladimir) becomes “misnaged.”. «Jewish Daily Forward, Oct 13»
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I've Been Thinking 'Bout the Railroad
Inasmuch as these were attributes most associated in Jewish life with Hasidism, the stereotype of him was also of a misnaged, or anti-Hasid ... «Forward, Feb 12»
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Sorcerer for the Goose and Gander
Among the Yinglish expressions I have come across in print recently are “a meshuggene putz” and “a farbissene misnaged,” (“a stubborn ... «Forward, Jan 12»
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Day Schools Stuck in Neutral
We'll also find an explosive growth in ultra-Orthodox or Haredi school enrollment, including both Hasidic and non-Hasidic (that is, misnaged or ... «Forward, Dec 11»
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Israeli history photo of the week: Jews of Jerusalem
Which Jew is Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Yemenite, Chassidic, anti-Chassidic misnaged, anti-Zionist Satmar, etc.? Sometimes it's difficult for veteran ... «Jerusalem Post, Sep 11»
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Kirtan Rabbi spins into southern California
“I wasn't really a follower, more of a misnaged [opponent], really. But I just started going, and I was completely amazed by him and his ability ... «The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A., Mar 11»
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Galactic Talmudist: The Pebble That Started It All, Rolls Again
More Lithuanian than Polish — that is, more Misnaged than Hasid — science fiction writers rule a universe of which they are the sole intelligent ... «Forward, Feb 09»
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