Maggid
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Popularity of the Maggid
- In the Gaonic period and the Middle Ages
- Relation to Messianic fervour
- Motivation and admonishment
- The Dubner Maggid
- Philosophical Maggidim
- Hasidic Maggidim
- Notable Maggidim
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|The prophet Daniel (biblical figure)|Daniel, with a maggid behind, from Die Bücher der Bibel, by [[Ephraim Moses Lilien. 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 (), also spelled as magid, is a traditional Jewish religious itinerant preacher, skilled as a narrator of Torah and religious stories. A chaplain of the more scholarly sort is called a darshan (). The title of maggid mesharim ('a preacher of uprightness'; abbreviated ) probably dates from the sixteenth century.
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