Though logically the outcome of Hasidism, in practice Tzaddikism was in many cases its forerunner.
In Lithuania alone, the stronghold of Rabbinism, Hasidism failed to take root.
At the close of their careers—both died in 1815—the banner of Hasidism floated over the whole of Poland.
A spiritual aristocrat, he was bound to condemn severely the "plebeian" doctrine of Hasidism.
Rabbinism had long been scenting a dangerous enemy in Hasidism.
