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History 

Collections: Rabbi Rakeffet: History of Torah in Modern Times

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1. The Baal Shem Tov's message of echad hamarbeh... (as long as your intentions are pure) meant even the simplest Jew can feel important.
2. Without talmidim a movement dies out. The baal shem tov had talmidim who turned his ideas into a movement. His 4 talmidim - the Maggid of Mezeritch, R' Avraham HaMalach, The Toldot Yaakov Yosef, and R' Levi Yitzchak M'Berditchev. After this generation chasidut divides into dynasties but all the dynasties relate to the Toldot.
3. With the introduction of a new nusach, going to the mikvah, putting on Rabbeinu Tam's tefillin the mitnagdim feared a slippery slope and the 2 officially split, lead by the Vilna Gaon. Why was the cherem of the Vilna Gaon annulled?