He is commonly referred to in Hebrew as ha ' Gaon ha ' Chasid mi ' Vilna, " the saintly genius from Vilnius.

The Rebbe has sent out emissaries to set up centers for furthering the education on these Jews in order to cause them to be aware of their heritage and Jewish identity.

Following the initiative of the sixth Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson spurred on the movement to what has become known as shlichus (" serving as an emissary outreach ") after becoming Rebbe in 1950 – 1951.

Today Rebbe has three meanings:

Following his death, he has been alternately referred to as the Alter Rebbe ( Yiddish: Old Rebbe ) in Chabad Hasidic circles, the Gra " z, or the Gaon Ha ' amiti ( the true genius ).

The movement has had no central, living leader for the past 200 years, as Rebbe Nachman did not designate a successor.

Following his death in 1994, his eldest son, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, known as the Sanzer Rebbe, has been the spiritual leader of the Sanz community in Israel. Today Kiryat Sanz has a population of approximately 1000 families.

The Rebbe is upset to learn that Wiesel has become a writer, and wants to know what he writes.

Rebbe Shmuel Yaakov Kohn, the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe of Jerusalem was a student of the late Rebbe Chaim Meir of Vizhnitz, as well Rebbe Moshe Yehoshua of Vizhnitz and has adopted many of the customs of Vizhnitz.

It is headed by the Pupa Rebbe who has several thousand followers.

In Breslov Chassidus, this town has some significance, as it was the place where Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus, " Likutey Moharan " ( Anthology of Our Teacher, Rebbe Nachman ) was first printed.

He has been at the helm of the movement's finances since the death of Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, the Rebbe ’ s chief of staff.

The Shomrei Emunim Rebbe has four sons who are involved in Shomrei Emunim, and five sons-in-law, all of whom are rebbes in their own right.

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement is well associated with public lighting ceremonies, which it has done since a directive from their last Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in 1987.

Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburgh has been detained by Israeli authorities several times in conjunction with his praising the massacre, supposedly according to his interpretation of the writings of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

It brings him into particularly strong conflict with his father, a man who has devoted his life to serving their leader, the Rebbe, by traveling around the world bringing the teachings and practice of their sect to other Jews, and who is by nature incapable of understanding or appreciating art.

where the Bostoner Rebbe Shlita has his Chassidic Court in America

The Rebbe has literally counseled thousands of newcomers to Judaism.

Thus the image of man has suffered complete fragmentation in personal and spiritual qualities, and complete objectification in sub-human and quasi-mechanistic powers.

And the basic character of that liberalism has been spiritual rather than economic.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

The local `` family of God '' has failed its new members through neglect and unconcern for their spiritual welfare.

`` Roots '', the new play at the brand-new Mayfair Theater on 46th St. which has been made over from a night club, is about the intellectual and spiritual awakening of an English farm girl.

I only hope my talking to you has helped you a little, anyway, because you need spiritual bucking-up ''.

Once he has received this blessing, the abbot not only becomes father of his monks in a spiritual sense, but their major superior under canon law, and has the additional authority to confer the ministries of acolyte and lector ( formerly, he could confer the minor orders, which are not sacraments, that these ministries have replaced ).

They believe that the soul belongs to the spiritual universe which has its origins in God.

* Cultivation of the soil " has within it a positive spiritual good " and from it the cultivator acquires the virtues of " honor, manliness, self-reliance, courage, moral integrity, and hospitality.

It has had particular influence in folk music, and has become an emblematic African American spiritual.

Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

It has become a song that inspires hope in the wake of tragedy, becoming a sort of " spiritual national anthem " according to authors Mary Rourke and Emily Gwathmey.

In contrast to Newton's vision of wretchedness as his willful sin and distance from God, wretchedness has instead come to mean an obstacle of physical, social, or spiritual nature to overcome in order to achieve a state of grace, happiness, or contentment.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zallu in the village of Aglu ( near present-day Tiznit ), where the future Almoravid spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin got his initial training.

This spiritual gift has been transmitted down to us by episcopal consecration ".

Religious use in Brazil was legalized after two official inquiries into the tea in the mid-1980s, which concluded that ayahuasca is not a recreational drug and has valid spiritual uses.

Some Anglicans accept that anointing of the sick has a sacramental character and is therefore a channel of God's grace, seeing it as an " outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace " which is the definition of a sacrament.

Administration to the sick is one of the eight sacraments of the Community of Christ, in which it has also been used for people seeking spiritual, emotional or mental healing.

The vast array of material on spiritual movements, anarchism, libertarian socialism and the Green Movement that is now available on the Internet has been perhaps more influential than any printed book.

The increasing intellectualization of consciousness, initially a progressive direction of evolution, has led to an excessive reliance on abstraction and a loss of contact with both natural and spiritual realities.

Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.