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Tag: Rabbi Shmelke Of Nikolsburg
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The Angel and the Covenant
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
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Jewish Review of Books
· 26 Sep 2016
Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg encountered the Angel of Death at the German border in the 1770s, warning him that spreading Hasidism in Western Europe would lead all Jews there to become Hasidim.