Q&A: The Hasidic Movement: Its Founder—What Did He Want?
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The Hasidic Movement: Its Founder—What Did He Want?
Question
The Baal Shem Tov.
What did he want?
A movement that would connect with the masses who didn’t connect to the scholars and preachers?
Or something else?
Answer
I don’t know. Go ask scholars of Hasidism.
There’s a nice book by A. Korman called "Currents and Sects in Judaism." See there.