His father-in-law, R. Hayim Ber showed hasidim how R. Jacob Joseph slept. He never slept on the length of the bed but always on the width. He kept soaking his feet in a pot of cold water. Doctors could not understand how he could stand it.
I.F.
Kinever 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.
