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Piety
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The Kotzker Rebbe: Truth at All Costs
Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, the fiercest voice in Hasidic history, demanded absolute truth and spent his last twenty years in seclusion, wrestling with God.
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The Baal Shem Tov: Founder of Hasidism
Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer — the Baal Shem Tov — transformed Judaism from the inside out. A poor orphan from the Carpathian Mountains, he taught that joy, sincerity, and simple devotion matter more than scholarly elitism, and he launched a movement that changed the Jewish world forever.
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