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You are here: Home / Articles / Hasidism and the Dogma of the Decline of the Generations

Hasidism and the Dogma of the Decline of the Generations

Originally published in Ada Rapoport-Albert (ed.), Hasidism Reappraised (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1996), 208-13.   From the very beginnings of hasidism enormous claims were made by the hasidim on behalf of the great masters, the zaddikim, who were seen as spiritual supermen endowed with the holy spirit, possessing a degree of sanctity unparalleled in…

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