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Meet the Sages/Hasidic Masters

Hasidic Masters (1700–present)

The teachers of the Hasidic movement, beginning with the Baal Shem Tov in 18th-century Podolia and spreading across dynasties from Chabad and Breslov to Satmar and Ger.

76 teachers in this era.

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