Pinchas Landau heard from R. Mordekhai of Rakhmistrivk that someone had expressed doubt about whether the matriarch Rachel is actually buried at Rachel’s Tomb:
If for generations Jews have sobbed there, pouring out their hearts over their troubles and tragedies at the site—she is already there.
Y.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.
