Reply To: A Chasidus without a present Rebbe

why dont we use a traditional definition of Chassidim from gemorah – people who are machmir on themselves, esp when dealing with other people. Most of them did not seem to have rebbes, sometimes even doing things against what their rebbe taught them, like the gentleman in Bava Kamma who struggled to walk in the middle of the road even when his teachers walked on other people’s properties.