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This website contains resources for the Anglo-Hareidi community, as well as those wishing to learn about or become part of that community. Haredi or Chareidi Judaism is the most theologically conservative form of Orthodox Judaism. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi (Haredim in the plural). Haredi (חֲרֵדִי) is derived from charada (fear, anxiety), which could be interpreted as "one who trembles in awe of God" (cf. Isaiah 66:2,5). Haredi Jews, like other Orthodox Jews, consider their belief system and religious practices to extend in an unbroken chain back to Moses and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. As a result, they consider non-Orthodox denominations to be unjustifiable deviations from authentic Judaism, both because of other denominations' doubts concerning the divine revelation of the Written and Oral Torah, and because of their rejection of halakhic (or Jewish legal) precedent as binding.

Learning Resources Hebrew English Linear Translations of important works Hebrew & English Tenach (Torah, Prophets and Writings) with commentary Talmud Bavli Talmud Yerushalmi Mishna Tosefta Mishne Torah leRambam Shulchan Aruch Other learning resources Automatic Translation Software that "learns". For Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew, Aramaic, and "70 other languages" Hareidi.org's Kosher Internet - free internet filter based on lo sasuru.

Parnasa Hareidi College - an online High Tech degree program Directories of "hareidi friendly" degree and certificate programs Community Forum English Forum Hebrew Forum

Organizations Haredi Jewish groups Agudath Israel, worldwide and local (such as Agudath Israel of America) Hasidic Jewish groups such as: Belz, Bobov, Boston, Boyan, Breslov, Chabad Lubavitch, Ger, Karlin, Munkacz, Puppa, Satmar, and Vizhnitz. Shas - Mizrahi Sefardi Haredi party in Israel United Torah Judaism - Ashkenazi Haredi political grouping in Israel Edah HaChareidis - rabbinical council of anti-Zionist Haredi groups in and around Jerusalem, including Satmar, Dushinsky, Toldos Aharon, Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok, Mishkenos Horoim, Spinka, Brisk and a section of other Litvish Haredim. Rabbinical leaders Individual leaders, sorted by years of activity The Baal Shem Tov (18th century founder of Hasidism) The Vilna Gaon (of Lithuania) Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin (19th century founder of the Lithuanian yeshivoth) Rabbi Moses Sofer (18th-19th century leader of Eastern European ultra-Orthodox) Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen Kagan, the Chafetz Chaim Rabbi Avrohom Mordechai Alter, driving force behind Agudas Yisroel in Poland Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, one of the highest halachic authorities for much of the twentieth century Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (leader of Haredim in Israel) Rabbi Aharon Kotler (founder of the Lakewood yeshivas in America) Rabbi Ovadya Yosef (leader of Israeli Sephardi Haredim) Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (present-day leader of Israel's non-Hasidic Ashkenazi Haredim)

Groups of rabbinical leaders (including Rebbes of Hasidic dynasties) Rabbis of the Edah HaChareidis rabbinical council of Jerusalem Rebbes of the Satmar Hasidim (originally Hungary, now New York) Rebbes of the Gerrer Hasidim (originally Poland, now Israel) Rebbes of Lubavitch See also Agudath Israel of America Bnei Brak Chabad Lubavitch Degel HaTorah Divine Providence in Contemporary Jewish thought Hardal Hasidic Judaism Hasidic and Haredi Jewish population growth Hasidim and Mitnagdim Mashgiach Ruchani Orthodox Judaism Posek Rebbe Relationships between Jewish religious movements Rosh yeshiva United Torah Judaism ZAKA World Agudath Israel

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