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Chasidic Judaism: What is it and where did it come from?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Is It a Ye?

Leaders would take followers out on walks in the woods, kind of like shabetites v did. But other hasidim who embraced the movement would join together in their own little prayer houses called stiblech. And they would sometimes travel on sort of pilgrimages to visit these rebis or they would call them sadiki. So this term tadik means sort of righteous person, holy person. The leader of a hacitic court could gain a massive following from a whole wide area. They were just weird and alarming and strange, i guess,. with the exception of leaving your wife and going into the woods to galivant with a group of young men. That's a ye

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