The Rabbi of Torna recounted that it is well-known that the Besht remarked, “Three-Quarters of the world stands on the slim Hazkel (the Noda BiYehuda was tall and slender).”
Y.F.
Yaakov Teitelbaum
(A student of the Rabbi of Torna; he heard the story from him)
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.
