gezh
/ɡɛʒ/
noun (Chabad / Yiddish slang)
1. Hereditary Chabad lineage; old-line Chabad pedigree.
A colloquial term referring to families with deep, multi-generational roots in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, often tracing back to the era of the Alter Rebbe or early Rabbeim; by extension, a sense of inherited Chabad cultural authenticity or “chassidishe aristocracy.”
Usage: Informal; spoken rather than literary. Used descriptively, not as a title or indicator of spiritual or halachic status.
Etymology: Likely from Yiddishized German Geschlecht (“lineage, stock”), with phonological influence from Eastern European Yiddish and Russian (cf. the voiced zh sound). Written in Yiddish as זש.
/ɡɛʒ/
noun (Chabad / Yiddish slang)
1. Hereditary Chabad lineage; old-line Chabad pedigree.
A colloquial term referring to families with deep, multi-generational roots in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, often tracing back to the era of the Alter Rebbe or early Rabbeim; by extension, a sense of inherited Chabad cultural authenticity or “chassidishe aristocracy.”
Usage: Informal; spoken rather than literary. Used descriptively, not as a title or indicator of spiritual or halachic status.
Etymology: Likely from Yiddishized German Geschlecht (“lineage, stock”), with phonological influence from Eastern European Yiddish and Russian (cf. the voiced zh sound). Written in Yiddish as זש.
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