The Baal Shem Tov and the Chasidic Movement: The Jews in Exile
Following a period of terrible demoralization for the Jewish people that included the Chmielnicki uprising and the Shabtai Tzvi debacle, new hope arose in the form of the Chasidic movement.
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Rabbi Mendel Dubov is the director of Chabad in Sussex County, NJ, and a member of faculty at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ.
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Smyrna is modern-day Izmir, Turkey. Of course, this is not a _geography_ lecture, but still you should be better prepared.