The minhagim of the Besht and his talmidim did not change and is still followed under today’s chasidim. What changed is the misnagdim realized they were good and not the bad they originally assumed, and so they dropped their objections and accepted and actually embraced chasidim. And today there are no more misnagdim. The non-chasidim sit on the same rabbinic bodies and moetzes with the chasidim.

your staement displays ignorance. The criticisms of the early hasidic movement stemmed from the fact that it emphazied mystical ideas and “feeling HaShems closeness” while placing little emphasis on learning. These concerns were completely understandable given that hasidism arose very shortly on the heels of another mystical movement that had a DISASTEROUS effect on the Jewish people; that led by the Shabsai Tzi. The fact that today “misnagdim” no longer object to hasidism, even respecting it, is because HASIDISM changed. That being said, these concerns were not then and are not today without merit, given certain things/practices/beliefs that go on in a certain hasidic community. I hope I don’t have to mention names.

And Orthodoxy from RCA to the Moetzes have all uniformly condemned Mr. Avi Weiss for his ordination of women as rabbas.

Also, they seem to be more troubled by the fact that YCT is consorting with liberal rabbis than it is by the fact that Avi Weiss is ordaining women. This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.

This statement is certain to make a big difference.