The Rav [R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Ba’al Hatanya] once said about R. Baruch [of Mezhibozh]: “You are indeed a grandson of the Besht, but you are only a biological grandson, whereas I am a spiritual grandson [of the Besht].”
I.F.
Mezhibozher 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.
