Download or read book The Messianic Secret of Hasidism written by Mor Altshuler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes back to the early days of Hasidism and retells its beginning with an esoteric circle of messianic Kabbalists that established the first Hasidic court. Paradoxically, their failure to bring redemption enabled the growth of Hasidism from a small group of devotees to a mass movement, still influential throughout the Jewish world.