>> Tur and Shulchan Aruch long preceded Chasidus.
There are Chasidim all over Gemorah. It is like “liberals” and old-time “Liberals”….Even then, they did not always lived to the name. The one in Bava Basra 7b built a gate house and poor would not come to him (your theme, Charlie!), so Eliahu stopped coming.
by the way, could someone help me answer a basic question about this – did not the Chasid realize that he was wrong after Eliahu stopped coming?! If yes, did not he take the gate house down?! If yes, sounds like Eliahu still did not come back?! Does it mean that the character flaw of not thinking what could happen is that great?