Hasidism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
HASIDISM or Chassidism both: has idiz m, kha Heb.,=the pious...by Baal-Shem-Tov . Its name derives from Hasidim . Hasidism, which stressed the mercy of God and encouraged joyous...Talmudists, who in 1772, pronounced the movement heretical. Hasidism shows the influence of the Lurianic kabbalah (see kabbalah...