Editing Hasid (section)

{{Short description|Jewish honorific denoting exceptionally pious persons}}
{{About|the term|the branch of Orthodox Judaism|Hasidic Judaism|the medieval sect|Ashkenazi Hasidim}}
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'''Ḥasīd''' ({{langx|he|חסיד}}, "pious", "saintly", "godly man"; plural {{Script/Hebrew|חסידים}} "Hasidim") is a [[Honorifics in Judaism|Jewish honorific]], frequently used as a term of exceptional respect in the [[Talmud]]ic and early medieval periods. It denotes a person who is scrupulous in his observance of Jewish law, and often one who goes beyond the legal requirements of ritual and ethical [[Halacha|Jewish observance]] in daily life. In the [[Mishnah]], the term is used thirteen times, the majority of which being in the Tractate ''[[Pirkei Avot]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Mishnah |editor-last=Danby|editor-first=H. |editor-link=Herbert Danby |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |place=Oxford |year=1933|isbn=0-19-815402-X |title-link=Mishnah }}, s.v. ''[[Hagigah]]'' 2:7; ''[[Pirkei Avot|Avot]]'' 2:8; (ibid.) 5:10; (ibid.) 5:11; (ibid.) 5:13; (ibid.) 5:14; (ibid.) 6:1; ''[[Berakhot (tractate)|Berakhot]]'' 5:1; ''[[Sukkah (Talmud)|Sukkah]]'' 5:4; ''[[Sotah (Talmud)|Sotah]]'' 9:15; ''[[Kiddushin (Talmud)|Kiddushin]]'' 4:14; ''[[Keritot]]'' 6:3, ''et al.''</ref>