The Ruzhiner held the Bet Shlomo in high esteem to the point where, when he married off the Chortkover, he requested that the Bet Shlomo bless him. He said about the Bet Shlomo that he possessed the zelem elokim (divine image of God).
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Yaakov Teitelbaum
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.
