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Article: How ancient wisdom can create honest businessmen.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2005
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Byline: Jeffrey Marsh, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Hasidic movement swept through the Jewish communities of 18th-century Eastern Europe, bringing a renewed sense of enthusiasm into the lives of millions of impoverished Jews whose spiritual lives had become as depressed as the environment of material poverty in which they lived following the destruction and massive pogroms during the cossack revolt of the previous century.
The inspirational leaders of the movement taught their followers that the sincere, devoted prayers of a simple, unlearned man were worth more in the eyes of Heaven than religious exercises performed by the rich and scholarly in ...