The Besht once said that Achiya HaShiloni1 was his teacher and that he was sent from Heaven to study with him.
The Toldos mentions in his Sefer that R. Achiya HaShiloni was the Besht’s teacher.
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Sanzer Rebbe
Rabbi Rotenberg
About the Research Institute
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.
