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A Chabad house is a form of Jewish community center, primarily serving both educational and observance purposes. [ 87 ] [ failed verification ] Often, until the community can support its own center, the Chabad house is located in the shaliach 's home, with the living room being used as the "synagogue".
A Chabad house is a centre for disseminating Hasidic Judaism by the Chabad movement. Chabad houses are run by a Chabad shaliach (emissary) and shalucha (fem. for "emissary"); the two are often married. They are located in cities and on or near college campuses.
The word has long been used by Jewish-Americans and in the regional speech of New York City and elsewhere. It is borrowed from Yiddish and is ultimately Slavic in origin. The word may also refer to free promotional items dispensed at trade shows, conventions, and similar commercial events.
A Chabad House is a form of Jewish community center, primarily serving both educational and observance purposes. [17] Often, until the community can support its own center, the Chabad House is located in the shaliach's home, with the living room being used as the "synagogue".
In contrast, Chabad and Breslov, in their different ways, place daily study of their dynasties' Hasidic texts in central focus; see below. Illustrative of this is Sholom Dovber Schneersohn's wish in establishing the Chabad yeshiva system, that the students should spend a part of the daily curriculum learning Chabad Hasidic texts "with pilpul".
The Hebrew term is bet knesset (בית כנסת) or "house of assembly". The Koine Greek-derived word synagogue (συναγωγή) also means "assembly" and is commonly used in English, with its earliest mention in the 1st century Theodotos inscription in Jerusalem.
A building constructed or used for this purpose is sometimes called a house of worship. Temples , churches , mosques , and synagogues are examples of structures created for worship. A monastery may serve both to house those belonging to religious orders and as a place of worship for visitors.
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