Before the Besht passed away he said: before I go to the other world I would like for all his attainments to be taken away for he would like to arrive there like a fool – as in [the verse] “The fool believes everything” [Proverbs 14:15].”
I.F.
R. Mordechai Solomon Friedman
Boyaner Rebbe
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.
