Originally published in The Solomon Goldman lectures 2, ed. Nathaniel Stampfer (Chicago: Spertus College of Judaica Press, 1979), 19-27. Republ. in L. Jacobs. Judaism and theology: Essays on the Jewish religion (London; Portland, OR: Vallentine, Mitchell, 2005), 134-143. The hasidic movement has now been on the Jewish scene for over two hundred years, during…