Chasidim recount what the Rizhiner once said while recounting how the Apter Rav used to praise him quite strongly: “Out of respect for the ‘Elder’, I revealed to him my entire ‘external dimension’ but only a fragment of my core.”
Y.F.
Boyaner Chassid
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.
