a sect of Orthodox Jews that arose out of a pietistic movement originating in eastern Europe in the second half of the 18th century; a sect that follows the Mosaic law strictly
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beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews
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Schneerson is the seventh in the line of Lubavitcher rebbes going back to his great-great-great-great-grandfather, Rabbi Schneur Zalman, an acolyte of the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov.