Before he passed away, the Apter Rebbe said: “If I wanted to I could fly over from this world to the other world like a bird. But what will every one [di velt] say? – that the Apter Rebbe died in a bizarre manner.”
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Jacob Teitelbaum
About the Research Institute
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.
