TJS II Episode 12: Movement and Controversy - a podcast by Rav Mike

Within two decades after the Baal Shem Tov's death, a movement sprung up from his revolutionary thoughts. This new current of Jewish life did not emerge without controversy; and as the chasidim and their opponents were struggling over the soul of Am Yisrael, the body of Polish Jewry was suddenly split in three by the partition of Poland.

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