Word of the Day: zaddik

zaddik (n)

A righteous and saintly person by Jewish religious standards.

"He drew a beautiful picture of the ideal zaddik, who is "so absorbed in meditation on the Divine wisdom that he cannot descend to the lower steps upon which ordinary people stand."
--Jacob Salmon Raisin, The Haskalah Movement in Russia

Hmm. I wonder if the meditation I do on the PATH train each morning on my way to Newark will ever get me to that level.