They told R. Samuel Abba that R. David Tolner said: that they beat R. Samuel Abba and R. Pinchas so that they would become rebbes. R. Samuel Abba said: “That they beat us so that we will become rebbes, I do not believe but that they will beat them {other rebbes} for having become rebbes I have no doubt.”
I.F.
Pinchas Landau
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.
