R. Baruch David Kahana, a respected Hasid, once came to the Sanzer Rebbe, the [author of the] Divrei Hayim to take leave of him as he was moving to the Land of Israel.
The Sanzer said to him: “Why are you rushing so – wait a while and I will accompany you.”
However, a year later he passed away.
I.F.
Sanzer 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.
