Which of the following defines Hasidism?
a. It is a lay movement of Torah teachers who later became religious leaders.
b. It is a Jewish mystical movement that stresses joyful emotion, which arose in the 1700s.
c. It is a separatist ultra-Torah-observant movement at the Qumran settlement on the Dead Sea.
d. It is a Jewish movement that claimed the middle ground between Reform and Orthodoxy.
b. It is a Jewish mystical movement that stresses joyful emotion, which arose in the 1700s.
Analysis:
a, c & d. Incorrect. Despite Hasidism's anti-traditionalist origins and history, it has ironically come to represent orthodoxy, even so-called "ultra-orthodoxy," in the modern world, especially to non-Jews.
b. Correct. Hasidism is a Jewish mystical movement that stresses joyful emotion, which arose in the 1700s.
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