The Ruzhiner once visited the Apter Rebbe. The Apter Rebbe said to him: “I study the Zohar and you study the Zohar! I visited R. Baruch – I can tell you that we do not even know the pronunciation of the Zohar.”
I.F.
Elazar Zohn
A Mezibuzer
About the Research Institute
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.
