| Its hero, Reb Yudel Hasid, is the embodiment of every wandering, drifting Jew in the ghettos of the tsarist and Austro-Hungarian empires. |
| He preached that the first duty of the Hasid consists in reverence for the Tzaddik. |
| A Hasid is concerned simply with earning a living in a way that will not interfere with his religious duties. |
| What some early readers have found most disturbing is the authors' description of the rebbe as a not especially pious young Hasid. |
| Foxman pointed out that Galliano was wearing blue, not black like a Hasid, and a gray hat without the standard wide brim. |
| The driver was Rabbi Ezriel Tauber, a middle-aged Hasid with long, black curly payot. |
