galut

plural galuts · alternative galus · alternative galuth

1. The Jewish Diaspora (dispersion from Israel).

   Our forefathers, who fell away from serving the Almighty properly, caused its destruction and incurred the curse of galus.

   1998, Dovid Rossoff, Where Heaven Touches Earth, page viii

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   At times we sense a heavy cloud of melancholy settling upon the spiirit, as a result of century-long suffering under the pressure of the Golus.

   1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 391