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| The anonymous anti-Chassidic polemic, Sefer Chassidim, 1818 |
Introduction
If you are interested in texts and manuscripts with their varying Hashkafot (worldviews), then you may find the anonymous 1818 work, entitled Sefer Chassidim[1] to be of interest. This little-known work, a polemic (theological argument) against Chassidism, is a challenge to some of the then-new principles of the Chassidic movement. The manuscript was never published. In this article, based extensively on a review[2] by Professor Jonatan Meir, we look at some of the content of this manuscript, without necessarily taking any one particular side.
