Lamed Vav Zaddikim
Lamed Vav Zaddikim (Heb., ‘36 righteous men’, appearing in Yiddish as Lamedvovniks), according to Jewish legend, the minimum number of righteous men alive in any one generation required to prevent the destruction of the world. For the novel, The Last of the Just, based on this legend, see HOLOCAUST.
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