The story of this parable is famous across other Hasidic dynasties as well.

Wiesel tells a story about a visit to a Rebbe, a Hasidic rabbi, he hadn't seen for 20 years.

In these books, Buber focused on the role of story telling and the charisma of early Hasidic masters as a vehicle for personal spirituality.

This is the story of Asher Lev, a boy born with a prodigious artistic ability into a Hasidic Jewish family, set in the 1950s in the time of Joseph Stalin and the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union.

In perhaps the most characteristic Hasidic story, the Baal Shem Tov's conduct instructed his new mystical teaching and boundless delight in the unlettered deveikut of the simple folk:

It tells the story of an undercover police officer's experiences in a Hasidic community.

The story of a Hasidic Jew whose adopted daughter dies, partially autobiographical about Will Eisner's daughter.

A story of the Baal Shem Tov, Hasidic founder, represents this:

The particular Hasidic emphasis and interpretation of this earlier Jewish and Kabbalistic concept, became one of the ideas that singled it out from non-Hasidic Judaism.

In some later Jewish writings, most notably those of the Hasidic masters, the theology of a " divine test " is rejected, and the sacrifice of Isaac is interpreted as a " punishment " for Abraham's earlier " mistreatment " of Ishmael, his elder son, whom he expelled from his household at the request of his wife, Sarah.

In its earlier formulations, Hasidic thought had elevated the Rebbe to a level above that of typical hasid.

In fact, the Shas party was founded by Rabbi Shach at an earlier juncture when he was previously also frustrated with the policies of the Hasidic rebbes, so he turned to the Sephardic Jews, and urged his own Ashkenazi followers at that time, to vote for the new Shas party, which they did in record numbers.

( In 1816, Joseph Perl wrote a denunciation of Hasidic mysticism and beliefs, in which he criticized many of the writings of Nachman, who had died six years earlier.

The play is loosely based on an earlier Romanian language play, Vlăduţu Mamei ( Mama's Boy ), transferred to a setting in a family of Hasidic Jews, a milieu that was a standard butt of humor among the " enlightened " Jews of the Haskalah.

Hasidic philosophy internalised the abstract theological system of the earlier Kabbalah, by relating it to man's inner psychological awareness.

* In the television series Touch, season 1, episode 9, " Music of the Spheres ", Jacob " Jake " Bohm, a mute boy who mysteriously feels the suffering of those along his path and aims to positively adjust their fates, is revealed as possibly one of the " Lamed Vav Tzadikim " by a Hasidic man.

Bialik also made guest appearances as a fictionalized version of herself in the series Fat Actress and made a guest appearance as a Hasidic Jew in an episode of Saving Grace.

Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.

There are monist pantheists and panentheists in Zoroastrianism, Hinduism ( particularly in Advaita and Vishistadvaita ), Judaism ( monistic panentheism is especially found in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy ), and in Islam ( among the Sufis, especially the Bektashi ).

Note: A rebbetzin ( a Yiddish usage common among Ashkenazim ) or a rabbanit ( in Hebrew and used among Sephardim ) is the official " title " used for, or by, the wife of any Orthodox, Haredi, or Hasidic rabbi.

There are monist pantheists and panentheists in Hinduism ( particularly in Advaita and Vishistadvaita respectively ), Judaism ( monistic panentheism is especially found in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy ), in Christianity ( especially among Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglicans ) and in Islam ( among the Sufis, especially the Bektashi ).

In some Hasidic stories, disciples consider their Rebbes and other religious figures to be among the Lamedvavniks.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994 NS ), known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or just the Rebbe among his followers, was a prominent Hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and last Rebbe ( Hasidic leader ) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

Critics of Hasidic Judaism expressed concern that Hasidism might become a messianic sect as had occurred among the followers of both Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank.

Borough Park is home to many Hasidic groups, the largest being the Hasidic Bobov sect ; the Belz, Ger, Satmar, Stolin, Vizhnitz, Munkacz, Spinka, Klausenburg, Skver, and Puppa communities also reside here, among others.

The term " Misnagdim " gained a common usage among Jews living in Europe as the term that referred to Ashkenazi Jews who opposed the rise and spread of early Hasidic Judaism, particularly as embodied by Hasidism's founder, Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), who was known as the Baal Shem Tov or BESHT.

The appearance in 1780 of the first works of Hasidic literature created alarm among the Orthodox.

His disciples attracted many followers among Ashkenazi Jews, and established numerous Hasidic groups across Europe.

There were several affinity groups among the thriving Jewish population before World War II, including Hasidic, Zionist, Bundist ( Socialist ), and others.

Martin Buber helped intitate interest in Hasidism among modernized Jews through a series of books he wrote in the first decades of the 20th century, such as Tales of the Hasidic Masters and the Legend of the Baal Shem Tov.

It is common for Orthodox Judaism, especially of the Hasidic sect, to maintain gender-specific events, where men and women sit or be present separately among members of the same sex.

The association is thus weaker also among Hasidic Jews who were influenced by Sephardic customs.

The Hasidic Jews who moved to Williamsburg during that period were led by several Hasidic leaders, among them the rebbes of Satmar, Klausenberg, Vien, Pupa, Tzehlem, and Skver.

Although the number of older speakers is continually decreasing, there is revived interest in Yiddish in academia and the arts ; and the populations of Yiddish-speaking Hasidic communities are growing, especially among younger generations.

However, a Hasidic aphorism describes a known Rebbe Tzadik as being among the 36, as their true greatness could be concealed beyond the perception of their devoted followers.

Among his discples were such Hasidic luminaries as the Yid Hakodesh (" The Holy Jew "), Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, Rabbi Meir of Apta, Rabbi David of Lelov, the Yismach Moshe, Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech of Dinov, Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz, the Ma ' or Vashemesh, and Sar Shalom of Belz.

He was part of the inner " Chevra Kadisha " ( Holy Society ) school of the Maggid Rebbe Dov Ber of Mezeritch ( second leader of the Hasidic movement ), who became the decentralised, third generation leadership after the passing of Rebbe Dov Ber in 1772.

In the past, it was home to a number of Hasidic Rabbis, such as The Holy Jew and Simcha Bunim of Peshischa.

* Holy Days: The World Of The Hasidic Family, Touchstone books 1995 ISBN 0-684-81366-1

* Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. Hasidism in Israel: A History of the Hasidic Movement and Its Masters in the Holy Land.

Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, Oxford University Press, 2006.