Pupa, also spelled Puppa and known as Kehillas Yaakov Pupa, is a Hasidic dynasty named after the Yiddish name of its town of origin, known in Hungarian as Papa. It was founded by Moshe Greenwald and had a yeshiva there before World War II; the whole community was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and only a few survived, and there are no longer any Jews in the town. Pupa is today headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, led by Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald II, with several thousand adherents and more than 7,000 students enrolled across its yeshivas, girls schools, summer camps and kollelim, including at Kiryas Pupa, a village the dynasty established in Ossining, New York.
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Classification
Kind of order ApostolateContemplative or Monastic Prayer 1 Who may join Who may joinHereditary or Lineage-Based 2 Organisation
OrdinationHereditary Tzaddik Succession 1 Practice
Liturgical Language Liturgical Language Belief
Defining Doctrinal PositionHasidic Devekut / Tzaddik Veneration 1 Status
Status TodayLiving tradition, practised today 2 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Governed By Polity
Source Jewish Virtual Library: Orthodox Judaism: Hasidism
Rooted In
Uses Liturgical Language
Sources
1. Islamic Mysticism: A Short History
Alexander Knysh, Brill
2. Wikipedia: Pupa (Hasidic dynasty)
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Kehillas Yaakov Pupa (also "Puppa"; Hebrew/Yiddish: קהלת יעקב פאפא) is a Hasidic dynasty, named after the Yiddish name of the town of its origin (known in Hungarian as Pápa).
Jewish Virtual Library: Orthodox Judaism: Hasidism
Jewish Virtual LibraryGoverned By Polity: Guru Lineage Polity, Hasidism articleQuote, Governed By Polity: Guru Lineage Polity, Hasidism article
Today, Hasidim are differentiated from other Orthodox Jews by their devotion to a dynastic leader (referred to as a "Rebbe"), their wearing of distinctive clothing and a greater than average study of the inner aspects of Torah.
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