The gaon olam (world-renowned scholar), the Rabbi of Buczacz, who journeyed to Chortkov, bore witness regarding the Elder Chortkover, that during Hanukkah, when he recited the vihi noam (a passage from Psalms), he was literally transformed.
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Yaaakov Teitelbaum
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.
