Zechusamזכותם
The first generations of Chassidus

The Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid's Circle

הבעל שם טוב וחבורת המגיד

The Baal Shem Tov founded the Chassidic movement in Mezhibuzh, and his talmid the Maggid of Mezritch gathered the circle of talmidim who spread Chassidus across Poland, Galicia, Ukraine and Lithuania. From that circle and from Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk came most of the later Chassidic dynasties.

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Began inMezhibuzh
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Sources for these connections
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  2. Aharon of Karlin (I) · Wikipedia
  3. An Auspicious Beginning · Breslov.org
  4. Apta (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia (English)
  5. Asher of Stolin (I) · Wikipedia
  6. Avraham HaMalach · Wikipedia (English)
  7. Baal Shem Tov family tree · Wikipedia (English)
  8. Belz · Encyclopaedia Judaica (Gale, 2008), via Jewish Virtual Library
  9. Belz (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia (English)
  10. Boruch of Medzhybizh · Wikipedia
  11. Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia (English)
  12. Dov Ber of Mezeritch · Wikipedia (English)
  13. Elimelech of Lizhensk · Wikipedia (English)
  14. Israel ben Eliezer · Wikipedia (English)
  15. Jacob Joseph of Polonne · Wikipedia (English)
  16. Lechovitch (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia
  17. Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev · Wikipedia (English)
  18. Lineage and scions of the Chernobyl dynasty (Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia
  19. Menachem Mendel of Rimanov · Wikipedia (English)
  20. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk · Wikipedia (English)
  21. Menachem Mendel Schneersohn · Wikipedia (English)
  22. Menahem Mendel of Peremyshlany · Encyclopaedia Judaica, via encyclopedia.com
  23. Meshullam Feivush Heller · Wikipedia (English)
  24. Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov · Wikipedia
  25. Moshe Teitelbaum (Ujhel) · Wikipedia
  26. Munkacs (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia
  27. Nachman of Breslov · Wikipedia
  28. Nachman of Horodenka · Wikipedia (English)
  29. Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz · Wikipedia
  30. Pinchas Horowitz · Wikipedia (English)
  31. Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz · Wikipedia (English)
  32. Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Rothenberg Alter (The Chiddushei HaRim) · Jewish Virtual Library (citing the Orthodox Union)
  33. Ruzhin (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia
  34. Ruzhin, Israel (Encyclopaedia Judaica) · Jewish Virtual Library (Gale)
  35. Schneersohn · Wikipedia (English)
  36. Shlomo Flam · Wikipedia
  37. Shlomo of Karlin · Wikipedia
  38. Shmelke of Nikolsburg · Wikipedia (English)
  39. Shneur Zalman of Liadi · Wikipedia (English)
  40. Twersky Hasidic Dynasty (Encyclopaedia Judaica) · Jewish Virtual Library (Gale)
  41. Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Dinov · Wikipedia
  42. Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov · Wikipedia
  43. Uri of Strelisk · Wikipedia
  44. Yaakov Yitzchak of Lublin · Wikipedia
  45. Yaakov Yitzchak of Peshischa · Wikipedia
  46. Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin · Wikipedia
  47. Yisroel Hopstein · Wikipedia (English)
  48. Zidichov (Hasidic dynasty) · Wikipedia
  49. Zusha of Anipoli · Wikipedia (English)
  50. חיים הלברשטאם · Hebrew Wikipedia
  51. חסידות צ'רנוביל · Hebrew Wikipedia
  52. חסידות רוז'ין · Hebrew Wikipedia
  53. נפתלי צבי הורוביץ מרופשיץ · Wikipedia
  54. שלום רוקח · Wikipedia (Hebrew)
  55. שלמה לייב מלענטשנא · Wikipedia

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