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When did Chassidut start
1730's/1740's
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Why did Chassidut start then?
Historians: Chassidim: Scared of modernity, USA, french revolution, enlightenment. Good way to combat that and keep jews Jewish (by the bal shem tov)
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Why did some oppose chassidut? 3 reasons
1:They would not come to shul on time and made missing halchos 2: they made division by wearing white on shabbat and by changing to nusach ari 3:They ate in shul was disrespectful 4:they learned less torah 5: they took on nusach ari but who is to say the are on the level to do so
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Why did the Gaon of Vilna oppose the Chassidim?
Its the wrong philosophical posture They were not taking sin seriously enough, he felt that a healthy orientation is that there is good and bad, Its the wrong philosophical posture.