R. Isaac Skverer greatly esteemed his wife Malkah – the daughter of the Ruzhiner. When she passed away he said: “I maintained a high level together with her. She would have preferred to sell bagels at the market just so that I would not be a rebbe.”
I.F.
David Twersky
Skverer descendant
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.
