Squeak is correct, actually, about the connection between Hasidut and Christianity. See Shaul Magid’s article “Brother Where Art Thou?,” as well as Rivash, Shut 157, where he explains similarities between the belief in Sefirot and Trinitarianism (see also the writings of R’ Leon deModena on this point). Of course, the belief that a rebbe or tzaddik can pull one out of gehenam by the peyos (R’ Nachman miBreslov, trans. Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom #141), the belief that a chicken’s blood can provide vicarious atonement (kapparot), the belief that tzaddikim suffer due to the sins of the dor, the belief that there will be a second coming of the mashiach (many Lubavitchers believe this), and associations between mashiach and the 53rd perek of Yeshaya seen in much kabbalistic and hasidic literature seem to demonstrate similarities between Xianity and Hasidic thought.
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