R. Zusya of Anipol was questioned on how one can attain the state of being able to say with all one’s heart, “I will bless [God] on the bad just as I bless him on the good.” He responded, “I don’t know what bad is. I haven’t experienced anything that can be called bad.”
Y.F.
David Twersky
Late Hasidism was perceived and presented in research as a movement of institutionalization and entrenchment that lost the initial Hasidic renaissance, and even degenerated. Recently there have been changes in research and more complex methods and approaches have been introduced that find characteristics unique to late Hasidim.
