When R. Baruch of Medzibuz was a child of about seven-eight he studied tractate Bava kama. They asked him why he was studying Bava kama and he replied: “The letters that spell out Bava kama stand for ‘Baruch son of Odel, [is] holy from his mother’s womb’.”
I.F.
Kinever 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.
