שפת אמת · Sefat Emet

The Gerrer Rebbe's weekly Torah teachings, delivered over three decades and printed after his death — the great late-Hasidic classic, and unusually spare: short, concentrated, returning again and again to the nekudah penimit, the inner point in every thing and every person.

⭐ Proof that the movement went on producing first-rate thought a century and a half after the Besht, in Poland, inside a court of enormous size. It is also the most accessible entry point in the wing for a reader who bounces off both the Tanya's system and Nachman's wildness.