QUESTION:
What was the difference between what the Baal Shem Tov revealed with the approach of Reb Chatzkel Levenshtein zt”l, who both taught about having real palpable emunah (faith) in Hashem?
ANSWER:
R’ Chatzkel Levenshtein’s path was to contemplate viscerally the exodus from Egypt, both intellectually and using the imagination, and he would also vividly imagine Gehinnom. The Baal Shem Tov however preferred to work with the neshamah directly, and he made less use of the intellectual abilities.
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