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While the term maggid is frequently used to refer to an itinerant Jewish preacher, in Jewish esoteric traditions a maggid is an angelic teacher; a spirit guide. A maggid (Hebrew: מַגִּיד), also spelled as magid, is a traditional Jewish religious itinerant preacher, skilled as a narrator of Torah and religious stories.
Title page of Maggid Devarav L'Yaakov (Korets, 1781 edition).. Dov Ber ben Avraham of Mezeritch (Yiddish: דֹב בּער פֿון מעזעריטש; died December 4, 1772 O.S.), also known as the Maggid of Mezeritch or Mezeritcher Maggid, was a disciple of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov), the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and was chosen as his successor to lead the early movement.
Magid (or Maggid) is used in Kabbalah to describe the Jewish communication with God, whereby an angel or the soul of a saint who died, reveals a living mystical experience, via a dream or a daydream, usually resulting from using magical means.
Maggid or Magid, traditional Jewish religious itinerant preacher in Judaism Magid Glove & Safety , an American PPE company Magid, a type of fictional magician in the novel Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Yisroel Hopstein (1737–1814), [1] also known as the Maggid of Kozhnitz, [2] was the founder of Kozhnitz Hasidism, and a noted hasidic leader in Poland during the late 18th and early 19th century. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] He was a student of both the Magid/ Dov Ber of Mezeritch and Elimelech of Lizhensk , and wrote many books on Chassidus and Kabbalah .
Building on his ordination as a maggid by Shlomo Carlebach, [14] Buxbaum established a program to train women and men as maggidim (plural of maggid). [15] [16] Graduates include Shoshana Litman, described as Canada's first ordained female Jewish storyteller, [17] and Tamir Zaltsman, who states that he is the first ordained Russian-speaking maggid. [18]
Maggid may refer to: Maggid shiur (or Magid Shiur), a lecturer, generally lecturing in one place, on a given topic, on a fixed schedule; Maggid (or Magid), a title or profession: a wandering lecturer, often collecting funds; Maggid of Mezritch, Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch, disciple and successor of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, the founder of ...
The most famous fable of the Dubner Maggid is about the way in which he was able to find such fitting fables. When asked about this the Maggid replied: Once I was walking in the forest, and saw tree after tree with a target drawn on it, and at the center of each target an arrow. I then came upon a little boy with a bow in his hand.