Hasidic Judaism
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Hasidism or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Ea
A tish of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty in Jerusalem, holiday of Sukkot, 2009
Rebuilt synagogue of the Baal Shem Tov.
Yisroel Hopstein, a great promulgator of Hasidism in Poland, blessing acolytes c. 1800. Hasidism gave the elite tzadik a social mystical role.
The Kaliver Rebbe, Holocaust survivor, inspiring his court on the festival of Sukkot
Satmar
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Satmar is a group in Hasidic Judaism founded in 1905 by Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum, in the city of Szatmárnémeti, Hungary. The group is a branch of the Sighet Hasidic dynasty. Following World War II,
The main Satmar synagogue in Kiryas Joel, New York
Joel Teitelbaum bowing before King Carol II of Romania, 1936
Zalman Teitelbaum, 2007
The book Vayoel Moshe, where Teitelbaum lays out his opposition to Zionism