The “Holy Jew” of Pryzucka1 once said: “First there were the prophets, but God looked and saw that the situation was deteriorating and that the prophets no longer were what they used to be. Then prophecy ceased, and the prophets were replaced by the mishnaic and talmudic sages. After some time, they too, began to go downhill, so God brought the Geonim, but after a while that reality also began to worsen. The Geonim were then followed by the great rabbis, the Rishonim and the Aharonim, but they deteriorated as well. So God brought the hassidic rebbes.
And now,” said the Holy Jew, “I see that this, too, is about to deteriorate, but I do not know what will come after that.”
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