Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to a rebbe or his descendants.
Well, I believe in you, you are a rebbishe child.
2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 1503 more examples
He confuses his personal feelings with Halachic methodology, Rebbishe vertlach with Halachic rulings, and so is not at all compelling.
2002 November 12, Sammy, quoting unknown source, “Eim Ha-Banim S'meikha”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)Hasidim also demonstrated discomfort with the lengthy sittings that a life portrait necessarily entailed. That is, even if the portrait could capture its subject in a rebbishe manner, creating a rebbe-portrait necessitated the quintessentially un-rebbishe activity of modeling.
2010, Maya Balakirsky Katz, The Visual Culture of Chabad, page 21Beyond these basic guidelines for all Hasidic people is the rebbishe dress code—the unique dress code for people of rabbinic descent.
2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 53
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