Ecstasy in prayer and fantastic merriment on days of religious rejoicing, raised a hasid to a hero among his kind.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin
It was so with the delegation of 1843. Rabbi Isaac, the rabid Mitnagged, could find but little to admire in the proposals of Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the ardent hasid, and both were bitterly opposed to the view preached by Doctor Lilienthal, that the salvation of the Jews and Judaism would be brought about by a system of education adopted in accordance with an ukase by Nicholas.
"The Haskalah Movement in Russia"
Jacob S. Raisin