As the Rizhiner fled Russia, he called out at the border:
It is a big deal to be an Apter Rav or a Berdychiver Rav. But to be a ‘Rizhiner’ is no big deal. One simply gets in a carriage and rides!
(And other times he was wont to speak very highly of himself)
Y.F.
Boyaner 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.
