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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

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

Chasidism is the extreme expression of Jewish optimism.

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