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Table of Contents:
  • The Hasidic tale as perceived by Hasidim
  • The tsadik, his followers, and his opponents
  • Matchmaking and marriages
  • The blessing of children: birth and offspring
  • Agunot
  • A life of sin
  • Illness and physicians
  • The dead, burial, and the world to come
  • Transmigration of the soul and dybbuks
  • The powers of evil and the war against them
  • Apostasy and apostates
  • Ritual slaughterers
  • The Tamim: the simple person
  • Hidden tsadikim
  • Hospitality
  • The prophet Elijah
  • The Ba'al Shem Tov's unsuccessful pilgrimage to the land of Israel.