The Besht used to travel to Old Constantin. When he
R. Beirush was considered the Misnagdic Rav in Mezhibozh. When
Once someone came before R. Baruch and bragged that he
Once R. Baruch pestered the Rav [R. Schneur Zalman of
The Rav [R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Ba’al Hatanya]
When the Rav [R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Ba’al
When the Besht was in Mezhibozh he suffered from great
When the Degel Machane Ephraim arrived in Mezibozh to settle
The following is related in the name of the Kotzker:
When Poznański, the great Polish magnate, died, they told the
One time the Chafetz Chaim sat with Bochurim and they
People used to travel to collect Ma’amad [money to support
The Shpoler Zeide once blessed a Jew and smacked him
The father of R. Pinchas Koritzer – R. Avraham was
The Malach’s second son, R. Yisrael Chaim was R. Shlomo
When the Rizhiner was still very young, his mother the
When the Ruzhiner’s first wife died (she was the daughter
After the passing of the Malach, Rebbetzin Freyda traveled to
Why was he called Malach [Angel]? He lived like an
R. Mendel Kosover had three friends, one was R. Eliezer
A very wealthy man – A Chasid – did not
A very wealthy man traveled to the Besht. He had
While the grandsons of R. Pinchas Koritzer, R. Shmuel Aba,
It is told about R. Mendel Kosover that he was
The Choze of Lublin and R. Mordechai of Neshchiz traveled
During his entire lifetime, R. Akiva Eger never combed his
The Rav [R. Schnuer Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad]
R. Wolf Kitzes raised an orphan boy, and the Besht
Rav Yeivi was very poor and barely eked out a
How the Toldos became a Chasid. When the Toldos lived
[The city] of Ostroh consisted of an old city and
After R. Yeivi’s passing, his son R. Pinchas became rebbe
R. Yeivi once became very ill. His daughter Yente ran
The Magid asked R’ Yeivi why he calls the local
The [manuscript of the] Tzoref from Warsaw was compiled by
The Skverer [Rebbe] never allowed anyone to look at the
R. Chaim Sanzer visited the Apter Rav 2 times. It
During the last years, the Magid and the Malach had
Only after the Degel passed away did R. Baruch arrive
The Apter Rav was particular that there should be a
R. Mechele Zlotchover once ordered one of his Chasidim to
The Sanzer Rebbe heard via direct transmission that the old
1. The [author of the] Divrei Hayim [1793–1876] once asked
The Toldos once came to visit the Besht. Before he
R. Nachum Chernobyler was a pauper. He was a magid
R. Pinchas Koritzer passed away on Friday. Friday night R.
R. Avraham Asher was R. Nachum Chernobyler’s son-in-law (R. Nachum’s
R. Dovid Artenberg – Berdichever Rav – related in Boyan
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.
