Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.

Haredi applies to a populace that can be roughly divided into three separate groups along both ethnic and ideological lines: ( 1 ) " Lithuanian " ( non-hasidic ) haredim of Ashkenazic origin ; ( 2 ) Hasidic haredim of Ashkenazic origin ; and ( 3 ) Sephardic haredim.

These four new days are not accepted as religious holidays by all forms of Haredi Judaism, including Hasidic Judaism.

These groups, broadly, comprise Modern Orthodox Judaism and Haredi Judaism, with most Hasidic Jewish groups falling into the latter category.

* Hasidic Judaism overlaps significantly with Haredi Judaism in its engagement with the secular and commercial world, and as regards social issues.

In a practical sense, what distinguishes Hasidic Judaism from other forms of Haredi Judaism is the close-knit organization of Hasidic communities centered around a Rebbe ( sometimes translated as " Grand Rabbi "), and various customs and modes of dress particular to each community.

Another thing that sets Hasidic Judaism apart from general Haredi Judaism is the strong emphasis placed on speaking Yiddish.

It is an anti-Zionist, Haredi organization, closely aligned with the Satmar Hasidic group, which has about 100, 000 adherents ( an unknown number of which are rabbis ), and like-minded Haredi groups.

For example, Orthodox, Haredi, and Hasidic rabbis discourage women from wearing a yarmulke, tallit or tefillin.

While some Haredi ( including Hasidic ) yeshivas ( also known as " Talmudical / Rabbinical schools or academies ") do grant official semicha (" ordination ") to many students wishing to become rabbis, most of the students within the yeshivas engage in learning Torah or Talmud without the goal of becoming rabbis or holding any official positions.

The curriculum for obtaining semicha (" ordination ") as rabbis for Haredi and Hasidic scholars is the same as described above for all Orthodox students wishing to obtain the official title of " Rabbi " and to be recognized as such.

Note: A rebbetzin ( a Yiddish usage common among Ashkenazim ) or a rabbanit ( in Hebrew and used among Sephardim ) is the official " title " used for, or by, the wife of any Orthodox, Haredi, or Hasidic rabbi.

Haredi Judaism is not an institutionally cohesive or homogeneous group, but comprises a diversity of spiritual and cultural orientations, generally divided into a broad range of Hasidic sects, Lithuanian-Yeshivish streams from Eastern Europe, and Oriental Sephardic Haredim.

Agudah serves as a leadership and policy umbrella organization for Haredi Jews in the United States, both those affiliating with the Hasidic and the non-Hasidic Mitnagdim / Lithuanian Jewish camps.

Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, chief Rabbi ( av beis din ) of the Lithuanian Haredi community, heads a beth din of Lithuanian and Hasidic dayanim, called She ' aris Yisroel.

Since then all the sects of Hasidic Judaism have been subsumed theologically into mainstream Orthodox Judaism, particularly Haredi Judaism, although cultural differences persist.

Within Orthodox Judaism there is a spectrum of communities and practices, including Modern Orthodox Judaism, Haredi Judaism, and a variety of movements that have their origins in Hasidic Judaism.

** Weekly before Shabbat, under Hasidic and Haredi customs

In modern Orthodox Judaism, there is a widespread minhag for the laity including men to immerse themselves on the day prior to Yom Kippur and often do so before the three pilgrimage festivals, and before Rosh Hashanah ; some Haredi Jews additionally immerse themselves at least before a Shabbat, and some Hasidic Jews do so daily before morning prayers.

Another reason for this broadening of the term is the fact that many of the leading Israeli Haredi yeshivas ( outside the Hasidic camp ) are successor bodies to the famous yeshivot of Lithuania, though their present-day members may or may not be descended from Lithuanian Jewry.

Bobov, ( or Bobover Hasidism ) ( חסידות באבוב ) is an Hasidic group within Haredi Judaism originating in Bobowa, Galicia in Southern Poland and now headquartered in the neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York.

There are many classical Jewish readings of allegories into the book of Esther, mostly from Hasidic sources.

Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the — () in Sephardi Hebrew, () in Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish, meaning " piety " ( or " loving kindness "), is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith.

The particular Hasidic emphasis and interpretation of this earlier Jewish and Kabbalistic concept, became one of the ideas that singled it out from non-Hasidic Judaism.

In addition to bridging this class gap, Hasidic teachings sought to reintroduce joy in the performance of the commandments and in prayer through the popularisation of Jewish mysticism ( this joy had been suppressed in the intense intellectual study of the Talmud ).

* 1991: Crown Heights Riot-May-between African Americans and the area's large Hasidic Jewish community, over the killing of a 10-year old black child by a Jewish motorist.

Born in Focşani to a Jewish Romanian family adhering to the Chabad Hasidic branch, he attended yeshivas in Eastern Europe.

For the 1993 Valentine's Day issue, the magazine cover by Art Spiegelman depicted a black woman and a Hasidic Jewish man kissing, referencing the Crown Heights riot of 1991.

Within the Hasidic world, the positions of spiritual leadership are dynastically transmitted within established families, usually from fathers to sons, while a small number of students obtain official ordination to become dayanim (" judges ") on religious courts, poskim (" decisors " of Jewish law ), as well as teachers in the Hasidic schools.

" Other Jewish writers have come to different conclusions, such as 13th-century scholar Bahya ben Asher, 16th-century scholar Moses Almosnino, and the 18th-century Hasidic teacher Nahman of Bratslav, who expressed a view-similar to that expressed by the Christian Neo-Platonic writer Boethius-that God " lives in the eternal present " and transcends or is above all time.

* Cleveland ( Hasidic dynasty ), a pair of Hasidic Jewish dynasties

* Pittsburg ( Hasidic dynasty ), a Hasidic Jewish dynasty founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924, which is now based in Ashdod, Israel

It is home to Europe's largest Hasidic Jewish and Adeni Jewish community.

Stamford Hill is at the centre of an Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish and predominantly Hasidic community estimated by the local council and others to be some 20, 000 strong.

It is the largest Hasidic community in Europe, and referred to as a square mile of piety, reflecting the many Jewish men seen walking in their distinctive clothes on their way to and from worship.

In recent time, these hakhamim may include the followers ' rebbes (" Hasidic rabbis ), rosh yeshivas (" deans of yeshivas -- Talmudical schools "), or a posek, often identified as an expert in the Shulkhan Arukh, the " Code of Jewish Law ".

These comprised the traditional Jewish focus on Talmudic literature that is central to Rabbinic Judaism, augmented by study of Hasidic philosophy ( Hasidism ).

Kaser is a village with a population consisting almost entirely of Hasidic Jews of the Viznitz sect.

This population figure does not include a number of smaller and related anti-Zionist Hungarian Hasidic groups who align themselves with Satmar.

Virtually all the large population of school-children born into Borough Park's Hasidic families attend local yeshivas for boys and Beis Yaakov-type schools for girls.

As a result, the overwhelming majority of the Hasidic population in Borough Park and Brooklyn introduced a more traditional Jewish religious lifestyle.

The Hasidic population adheres strongly to halakha ( Jewish law ) and the Shulkhan Arukh ( halakhic code ), following many Judaic laws in their daily lives.

Despite the difficult conditions under which the Jewish population lived and worked, the courts of Hasidic dynasties flourished in the Pale.

In 1899, Jews formed 37 % of the population, and Vaslui was home to the Vasloi Hasidic dynasty.

There were several affinity groups among the thriving Jewish population before World War II, including Hasidic, Zionist, Bundist ( Socialist ), and others.

The area south of Division Avenue is home to a large population of adherents to the Satmar Hasidic sect.

" The Satmar population of Williamsburg is around 45, 000, and is the largest sub-group within Williamsburg's Hasidic population of around 57, 000.

Prior to the influx of " hipsters ", Williamsburg often saw tension between its Hasidic population and its black and Hispanic one.

Because Hasidic men receive little secular education, and women tend to be homemakers, college degrees are rare, and economic opportunities lag far behind those of the rest of the population.

The rest of the towns lands are today the neighborhoods of Borough Park, which has a large Hasidic Jewish population, and Bay Ridge.

The latter has a high concentration of Hasidic and Sephardic Haredi families, with a variety of schools and synagogues serving each population.