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To: goldstategop

What is a Rebbe?

2 posted on 07/06/2008 5:38:25 PM PDT by Rosemont ($4+ for gas. Can we drill now?)

To: Rosemont

I’d say that “Rebbe” is a diminutive for “Rabbi”, that is a more familiar and affectionate form of the title.

4 posted on 07/06/2008 5:43:08 PM PDT by kenavi ("My mudder thanks you, my fodder thanks you, and Obama thanks you!")

To: Rosemont

Are they talking about Menachem Mendel Schneerson aka ‘the rebbe’?

A Hassidic cult in Brooklyn believes this man (deceased) to be the Messiah.

5 posted on 07/06/2008 5:47:52 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (So sue me.)

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