squeak – can you please elucidate that with more details?
Your description of rolling in the snow for mussar purposes fits in with what the Alter of Novardok had his talmidim do – they rolled around in the snow and layed down in graves, “al derech mussar”.
Which Chasidim did similar? And what were the original misnagdim’s taaina on the Chasidim? And was that taaina applicable to the original talmidim of the Baal Shem?