The book, at first repel the reader used by Chagall and Elie Wiesel to see in Hasidism its sentimental and picturesque sides. Then, if one splint a little reading, you become aware of all the science, all the careful research that the author, who read everything, seen everything, studied, practiced has to write its history of Hasidism and to revive the birth conditions. No pedantry, but the detachment necessary to the scientist, detachment does not prevent a form of empathy with the subject and with the great men he studies. Book essential in every respect, which is the logical continuation of the studies of Scholem and Idel Mopsik the Cabal.
