| The wealthy Chassidim regarded it as a duty to support the zaddik liberally. |
| Whoever desired to enter upon a hazardous transaction consulted the zaddik as an oracle, and had to pay for his counsel. |
| The zaddik, however miserly he might be, had to assist the poor and distressed with his revenues. |
| Chassidism and its necessary dependence upon the zaddik offered the masses the means of this forgetfulness of self through faith. |
| All and everything that the zaddik does and thinks has a decided influence upon the382 upper and lower worlds. |
| But the greatest abuse has come from the doctrine of the zaddik. |
