History of the Jews in Russia And Poland. volume Ii
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] These persecutions, however, did not smother the fire of protest in thebreast of the excommunicated rural philosopher. In the last years of hislife he published two pamphlets, [1] in which he severely lashed theshortcomings of Jewish life, the early marriages, the one-sided schooltraining, the repugnance to living knowledge and physical labor. However, the champions of orthodoxy took good care to prevent thesebooks from reaching the masses. Exhausted by his fruitless struggle, Menashe died, u...nappreciated and almost unnoticed by his contemporaries. [Footnote 1: One of these, entitled _Samme de-Hayye_ ("Elixir of Life"), was written in Yiddish, being designed by the author for the lowerclasses. ] 2. THE STAGNATION OF HASIDISM A critical attitude toward the existing order of things could onoccasions assert itself in the environment of Rabbinism, where the mind, though forced into the mould of scholasticism, was yet working at highspeed. But such "heretical" thinking was utterly inconceivable in thedominant circles of Hasidism, where the intellect was rocked to sleep bymystical lullabies and fascinating stories of the miraculous exploits ofthe Tzsaddiks.
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