释义 |
‖ Talmid Chacham|ˈtalmɪd ˈxɔxam| Also talmid chocham, hakham, etc., and with lower-case initials. [Heb., lit. ‘disciple of a wise man’.] One well versed in the Jewish Law; a wise man (see also quot. 19621). Cf. haham.
1863Chambers's Encycl. V. 720/2 Rabbi (Master), Talmid Chacham (Disciple of Wisdom), were titles of honour given to those expert in a knowledge of the law. 1905Jewish Encycl. XI. 678/2 Talmid Ḥakam..Honorific title given to one well versed in the Law... The talmide ḥakamim formed in Jewish society a kind of aristocracy having many privileges. 1959D. D. Runes Conc. Dict. Judaism 217/1 Talmid Chakham, student of true knowledge as interpreted by the Talmudic sages. 1962New Jewish Encycl. 475/1 Talmid Ḥakham, originally this Hebrew term referred to a disciple of a learned man (that is, a teacher of the Oral Law), as its literal meaning implies. Later it applied to any Talmudic scholar of high reputation, and in its present usage it applies to any individual of high Jewish scholarship. 1962B. Abrahams tr. Life of Glückel of Hameln ii. 22 God{ddd} does not desert a Talmid Cocham. [Note] A wise and clever man, one well versed in the Torah and Talmud. 1973Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 42/3 A native of Czechoslovakia, he studied at Miskolc, Galanta, and other yeshivot, and was a man of scholarship—a talmid chacham in the truest sense of the word. |