Spiritual Leaders"Judaism believes, from the very dawn of Jewish history, that there are in every generation certain individuals who are called tzadikim, which means people with unusual spiritual qualities. All throughout history every generation has such people and these tzadikim are of special spiritual caliber and have unusual qualities of leadership. Hasidism only reemphasizes the idea to a certain degree but you will see this throughout Jewish history. Nowadays you hear a Rebbe on cable TV. Two thousand years ago, you had to travel to the great centers of Jewish learning in Babylonia; but it’s basically the same thing." "Would the Rebbe be called a saint?" I asked. "We don’t use that word. It’s a Christian concept. Rather than saint, I would use the term tzadik, a person who uses all his potential and all his abilities for spirituality and godliness," he concluded. |
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