Subchapter of ‘Hasidic Tradition’ in Blumenthal, David R. (ed.) Understanding Jewish mysticism: a source reader, ii: The Philosophic-Mystical Tradition and the Hasidic Tradition (Ktav, 1982) Originally published in L. Jacobs, Hasidic Prayer (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972), pp. 75-8. Introduction (Blumenthal) Another element in the ‘accumulated tradition’ of Jewish mystical thought which Hasidism…