The Rizhiner once visited the gravesite of the Magid of Mezritch.
He said: the world says that a bear can dance – I have never seen it.
But now I see that a bear can indeed dance!
Oh, can he dance!!!
I.F.
Liaver Rebbe
He heard it himself from a Jew who was present when this took place.
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.
