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The Canon · No. 080
Hasidic Judaism
Hasidism; Chassidus
c.1740 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Israel, US (New York), UK, Belgium, Canada
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1740 CE The Baal Shem Tov begins teaching publicly.
- 1772, 1781 CE The Vilna Gaon and the Mitnagdim issue bans of excommunication against Hasidim, accusing them of heresy and of neglecting Talmud study. The conflict was bitter and lasted generations.
- 1797 CE The Tanya published; Chabad's intellectual Hasidism begins.
- 1810 CE Nachman of Breslov dies at Uman; his followers famously never appoint a successor.
- c.1800–1900 CE Dozens of dynasties form: Satmar, Ger, Belz, Vizhnitz, Bobov, Sanz.
- <strong>1939–1945 CE</strong> The Holocaust destroys Hasidic Europe. Whole dynasties are annihilated; the surviving Rebbes rebuild in New York and Israel from a handful of followers.
- 1951–1994 CE Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, builds Chabad into a global outreach network. He dies in 1994 without a successor; a minority believe he is the messiah, which mainstream Orthodoxy rejects.
- 1970s–present Explosive demographic growth. Satmar's two rival branches alone number in the low hundreds of thousands.
- 2000s–present Public disputes over secular education, over abuse reporting, and a visible stream of memoirs by people who have left.
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