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He invoked the founder of Chasidism — the Jewish spiritual revival group that arose in 18th-century Eastern Europe — who once said, “Forgetting is exile, remembering is the path to salvation.”

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

Chasidism is the extreme expression of Jewish optimism.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

This passage in the "Book of the Pious" reminds me of the circumstance under which the originator of the latter-day Chasidism, Israel Baalshem, is said to have married.

From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Abrahams, Israel