Reply To: Were all Jews Frum before the Haskala?

@Joseph, “MM: That’s incorrect both historically and factually. The rabbinical establishment didn’t oppose their founding. Decades later the establishment in Lithuania came out opposed. But that was long after the Chasidim were already established and were effectively already part of the rabbinical establishment.” Right. There were put in Cherem AFTER they were firmly grounded. Right, right…