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Yiddish, Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Judaeo-Spanish, Macedonian, Romanian. Lev Tahor ( Hebrew: לֵב טָהוֹר, lit. "pure heart") is an extremist Jewish sect [ 2][ 1] founded by Shlomo Helbrans in 1988. Often described as a cult, [ 3] it consists of about 200–300 members. [ 4]
Jewish religious movements, sometimes called "denominations", include diverse groups within Judaism which have developed among Jews from ancient times. Today in the west, the most prominent divisions are between traditionalist Orthodox movements (including Haredi ultratraditionalist and Modern Orthodox branches) and modernist movements such as Reform Judaism originating in late 18th century ...
The sect's founding date coinciding with that of the Essenes; The theory that God interacts with humans through an angel aligning with Essene beliefs, as well as Philo's concept of the Logos; Qirqisani's omission of the Essenes from his list of Jewish sects, which can be explained if he considered the Magharians to be synonymous with the Essenes.
Neturei Karta synagogue and study hall in Jerusalem. Neturei Karta ( Aramaic: נָטוֹרֵי קַרְתָּא nāṭōrē qartāʾ, lit. 'Guardians of the City') is a Haredi Jewish group. Founded in Jerusalem in 1937 by Amram Blau and Aharon Katzenelbogen, Neturei Karta was formed as an offshoot of the Aguda movement. Aguda, representing the ...
Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam. Mordechai Dovid Unger (b. 1954) Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov (1847–1905) Borough Park, Brooklyn. Bobowa and Sanz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now in Poland) Chabad Lubavitch. Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994) Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812) Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
e. Hasidism ( Hebrew: חסידות, romanized : Ḥăsīdus) or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe. Today, most of those affiliated with the movement, known as hassidim, reside in ...
The Sadducees ( / ˈsædjəsiːz /; Hebrew: צְדוּקִים, romanized : Ṣəḏūqīm, lit. 'Zadokites') were a sect of Jews active in Judea during the Second Temple period, from the second century BCE to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
Sicarii. The Sicarii[ a] (“Knife-wielder”, “dagger-wielder”, “dagger-bearer”; from Latin sica = dagger) were a group of the Jews who, in the decades preceding Jerusalem's destruction in 70 CE, conducted a campaign of "terror-kidnapping, extortion, robbery, and murder" against other Jews and Romans, [ 1] and became known for a ...