| The appearance of some miracle-working Tzaddik in a certain neighborhood frequently resulted in wholesale conversions to Hasidism. |
| In Lithuania alone, the stronghold of Rabbinism, Hasidism failed to take root. |
| Modern Hasidism evolved in 18th-century Poland, where its leader, Ba'al Shem Tov, taught a return to faith and piety. |
| It is a very diversified thought, for there are as many bodies of doctrine in Hasidism as there were creative spirits during the first three generations of the movement. |
| In the above there is expressed an idea behind the thought of all branches of Hasidism, an idea applied especially to the life of prayer. |
| The eastern European Diaspora created Hasidism, the Hebrew Haskalah, and Zionism. |
