The movement did for a few decades challenge the rabbinic establishment, which relied on the authority of Torah acumen, but affirmed the centrality of study very soon. It was replaced by apprehension and concern due to the growing presence of the reclusive, strictly religious Hasidic lifestyle in the public sphere, especially in Israel. Not every Hasidic group requires long peyos, and not all Jewish men with peyos are Hasidic, but all Hasidic groups discourage the shaving of one's beard. Racial and antisemitic epithets filled the air alongside hurled rocks and bottles. Two years later, those wounds were still raw enough to galvanize Hasidic voters who rallied around Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Republican mayoral candidate. The ruling followed a State Board of Regents decision in September that requires private schools, including yeshivas a term that encompasses all Orthodox Jewish schools to prove they are providing a basic secular education or risk losing government funding. They offered what they described as more spiritual, candid, and simple substitutes. Several of these Hasidic schools had lasting influence over many dynasties, while others died with their proponents. The Skver sect, established in 1848 in Skvyra, near Kyiv, constitutes 3,300. Over the years, the Hasidic community has used a broad range of strategies to strengthen its power: electoral politics, an aggressive legal strategy, placing members on local school boards, campaign donations, tapping public social service funds to boost institutions, and mass rallies and protests to encourage elected officials to listen to their perspective. For example, the Rebbes' families maintain endogamy and marry almost solely with scions of other dynasties.[16]. The complementary opposite of corporeal worship, or the elation of the finite into infinite, is the concept of Hamshacha, "drawing down" or "absorbing", and specifically, Hamshachat ha-Shefa, "absorption of effluence". Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day, and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. . Since winning, Mr. Adams, a former state senator in Brooklyn, has highlighted his ties to the community. Book 1, Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Book 2, Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8 . They were often transmitted orally, though the earliest compendium is from 1815. Adopting an elitist, hard-line attitude, he openly denounced the folky nature of other Tzaddiqim, and rejected financial support. Hasidism teaches that while a superficial observance of the universe by the "eyes of the flesh" (Einei ha-Basar) purportedly reflects the reality of all things profane and worldly, a true devotee must transcend this illusory faade and realize that there is nothing but God. The most explosive growth was experienced in Chabad-Lubavitch, whose head, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, adopted a modern (he and his disciples ceased wearing the customary Shtreimel) and outreach-centered orientation. The Hasidic community began to carefully build relationships with elected officials, starting in the 1950s, when Rabbi Teitelbaum found common ground with Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. A pivotal. Mashpia A man at Asher's school who is in charge of the spiritual development of the students. Affiliation is often retained in families for generations, and being Hasidic is as much a sociological factor entailing birth into a specific community and allegiance to a dynasty of Rebbes as it is a purely religious one. Joseph Dan ascribed all these perceptions to so-called "Neo-Hasidic" writers and thinkers, like Martin Buber. As he tries to feel a sense of completeness, Asher . Dnepropetrovsk ( Yekaterinoslav until 1926), city and industrial center situated on the River Dnieper in Ukraine. Excoriatory polemics were printed and anathemas declared in the entire region. Concurrently, the image of its Opponents as dreary intellectuals who lacked spiritual fervour and opposed mysticism is likewise unfounded. Most Hasidim use some variation of Nusach Sefard, a blend of Ashkenazi and Sephardi liturgies, based on the innovations of Rabbi Isaac Luria. Many of the latter, including various special styles of dress and the use of the Yiddish language, are nowadays associated almost exclusively with Hasidism. An artist born into a community of Ladover Hasidim, Asher lives in a world that considers art a worthless vanity at best and a blasphemy at worst. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this modern classic from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Chosen, a young religious artist is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even. On election night, Eric Adams, then the mayor-elect of New York City, shared his victory with Hasidic leaders, including Rabbi Moishe Indig, center. At a time when most Orthodox Jews, and Hasidim in particular, rejected proselytization, he turned his sect into a mechanism devoted almost solely to it, blurring the difference between actual Hasidim and loosely affiliated supporters until researchers could scarcely define it as a regular Hasidic group. One major derivative of this philosophy is the notion of devekut, "communion". Another cause for strife emerged when the Hasidim adopted the Lurianic prayer rite, which they revised somewhat to Nusach Sefard; the first edition in Eastern Europe was printed in 1781 and received approbation from the anti-Hasidic scholars of Brody, but the sect quickly embraced the Kabbalah-infused tome and popularized it, making it their symbol. In 12th-century Rhineland, or Ashkenaz in Jewish parlance, another prominent school of ascetics named themselves hasidim; to distinguish them from the rest, later research employed the term Ashkenazi Hasidim. Mass immigration to America, urbanization, World War I, and the subsequent Russian Civil War uprooted the shtetls in which the local Jews had lived for centuries, and which were the bedrock of Hasidism. Introduction; Summary. Secular artistic endeavors are not valued in the Hasidic world, so Asher meets with disapproval from his parents and community. I told him he might be a very nice person, but I dont know him, said Rabbi Moishe Indig, a leader of the Satmar Hasidic group in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Holy Jew's "Przysucha School" was continued by his successor Simcha Bunim, and especially the reclusive, morose Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. By his death in 1994, it had many more semi-engaged supporters than Hasidim in the strict sense, and they are still hard to distinguish. In Central Poland, the new leader was Jacob Isaac Horowiz, the "Seer of Lublin", who was of a particularly populist bent and appealed to the common folk with miracle working and little strenuous spiritual demands. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are. As in other Haredi groups, apostates may face threats, hostility, violence, and various punitive measures, among them separation of children from their disaffiliated parents, especially in divorce cases. On weekdays, they wear a long, black, cloth jacket called a rekel, and on Jewish Holy Days, the bekishe zaydene kapote (Yiddish; lit., satin caftan), a similarly long, black jacket, but of satin fabric traditionally silk. In total, all Vizhnitz sub-"courts" constitute over 10,500 households. His father, Aryeh, is an emissary for the Rebbe, the leader of the Ladover Hasidic community. In popular discourse, at least, "Hasid" came to denote someone who follows a religious teacher from the movement. Since the Maggid's death, none could claim the overall leadership. The Rebbe, speaking at Yitzchok Lev's funeral, explains that the Ladover community was waiting for the Messiah, a light in a time of chaos, just as when the Master of the Universe created the . [1], When the sect began to attract following and expanded from a small circle of learned disciples to a mass movement, it became evident that its complex philosophy could be imparted only partially to the new rank and file. Further excommunication followed in Brody and other cities. As God was everywhere, connection with Him had to be pursued ceaselessly as well, in all times, places and occasions. In Israel, the largest Hasidic concentrations are in the Haredi neighbourhoods of Jerusalem including Ramot Alon, Batei Ungarin, et cetera in the cities of Bnei Brak and El'ad, and in the West Bank settlements of Modi'in Illit and Beitar Illit. In the early days of the movement, a particular Rebbe's following usually resided in the same town, and Hasidim were categorized by their leaders' settlement: a Hasid of Belz, Vizhnitz, and so forth. Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem, a private boys school in Brooklyn, was cited by the state for not providing a basic secular education. With second choices counted, Mr. Adams most likely received at least 8,000 votes in Hasidic neighborhoods roughly the difference between him and Kathryn Garcia, the citys former city sanitation commissioner, who was the runner-up in the race. Another famous philosophy is that formulated by Nachman of Breslov and adhered to by Breslov Hasidim. Yiddish newspapers are still published, and Yiddish fiction is being written, primarily aimed at women. Mr. Yang received about 8,100 first-round votes in areas of the city where a large number of people speak Yiddish, while Mr. Adams won about 4,300 votes in the same areas. The most distinguished Hasidic leader in Galicia in the era was Chaim Halberstam, who combined Talmudic erudition and the status of a major decisor with his function as tzaddiq. These included spiritual enlightenment, zest in worship and other high-minded aims, but also the more prosaic health and healing, deliverance from various troubles and simple economic prosperity. The community got a boost with the late-era Soviet Union influx of Jews from places like Georgia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Some Hasidic men from Eastern Galicia wear black socks with their breeches on the Sabbath, as opposed to white ones on weekdays, particularly Belzer Hasidim. debunked Simon Dubnow's claim that the Council of Four Lands' demise in 1746 was a culmination of a long process which destroyed judicial independence and paved the way for the Hasidic rebbes to serve as leaders (another long-held explanation for the sect's rise advocated by Raphael Mahler, that the Khmelnytsky Uprising effected economic impoverishment and despair, was also refuted[by whom?]). According to Lurianic doctrine, the netherworld was suffused with divine sparks, concealed within "husks", Qeliphoth. Although there are only about 200,000 Hasidic Jews in New York, making up roughly 10 percent of the states Jewish population, and about 1 percent of the states population, few elected officials embrace positions that will antagonize the community, especially when it comes to scrutiny over yeshivas. Rudolph Giuliani incorporated outreach to the Hasidic Jewish community as part of his successful 1993 mayoral campaign. Common themes include dissenting the question what is acceptable to pray for, whether or not the commoner may gain communion, or the meaning of wisdom. This ideal is termed Hitpashtut ha-Gashmi'yut, "the expansion (or removal) of corporeality". Less than three generations after the Besht's death, the sect grew to encompass hundreds of thousands by 1830. Moses Isaac Gewirtzman founded the new Pshevorsk (Hasidic dynasty) in Antwerp. Its common adherents, belonging to groups each headed by a spiritual leader, were henceforth known as Hasidim. While populist miracle working for the masses remained a key theme in many dynasties, a new type of "Rebbe-Rabbi" emerged, one who was both a completely traditional halakhic authority as well as a spiritualist. [17] Indoors, the colorful tish bekishe is still worn. Rabbi Moses Sofer of Pressburg, while no friend to Hasidism, tolerated it as he combated the forces which sought modernization of the Jews; a generation later, in the 1860s, the Rebbes and the zealot Haredi rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein allied closely. While Jews promote the Hasidic lifestyle, Rivkeh exemplifies her community's obvious discomfort when she "perspired a great deal" in the middle of summer due to her long sleeves (Potok 7). But it was an external threat, more than anything else, that mended relations. ", In Hasidic discourse, the willingness of the leader to sacrifice the ecstasy and fulfillment of unity in God was deemed a heavy sacrifice undertaken for the benefit of the congregation. Often, a very large dish is prepared beforehand and the Rebbe only tastes it before passing it to the crowd. "Materiality itself could be embraced and consecrated", noted Glenn Dynner, and Hasidism taught that by common acts like dancing or eating, performed with intention, the sparks could be extricated and set free. [40], Israel ben Eliezer gathered a considerable following, drawing to himself disciples from far away. But by the dawn of the 19th century, the Righteous began to claim legitimacy by descent to the masters of the past, arguing that since they linked matter with infinity, their abilities had to be associated with their own corporeal body. Some Hasidic men shave off the rest of their hair. Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. [42] Another potent institution was the Shtibel, the private prayer gatherings opened by adherents in every town which served as a recruiting mechanism. His commanding and often especially in the early generations charismatic presence was to reassure the faithful and demonstrate the truth in Hasidic philosophy by countering doubts and despair. In keeping with Jewish law, married women cover their hair, using either a sheitel (wig), a tichel (headscarf), a shpitzel, a snood, a hat, or a beret. Hasidic men customarily wear black hats during the weekdays, as do nearly all Haredi men today. [30], Many revolve around the righteous. He may be able to tap into his "Divine Soul" (Nefesh Elohit), which craves communion, by employing constant contemplation, Hitbonenut, on the hidden Godly dimension of all that exists. Hasidic leaders came to amass influence in New York not long after the Satmars, the largest Hasidic group in the United States, first arrived in New York after World War II and the Holocaust. Rabbi David Niederman, a Hasidic leader and president of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, an influential nonprofit, said the community viewed the independence of yeshivas as a fundamental right, regarding efforts to interfere in them as a threat to our core existence.. In this years governors race, Mr. Zeldin is enthusiastically courting Hasidic leaders, many of whom are concerned over new state rules requiring private schools to prove they are teaching English and math. In 2004, he helped bring water from the New York City drinking supply to Kiryas Joel, a village 50 miles outside the city a project still ongoing. Its not nice to take an old friend and throw him under the bus., That old friend was Eric Adams, then the Brooklyn borough president, who won the primary and became mayor in January. It is well attested that he did emphasize several known kabbalistic concepts, formulating a teaching of his own to some degree. Many tracts have been devoted to the subject, acknowledging that the "callous and rude" flesh hinders one from holding fast to the ideal, and these shortcomings are extremely hard to overcome even in the purely intellectual level, a fortiori in actual life.[11]. Thus, a very tangible and alluring motivation to become followers emerged. A gartel divides the Hasid's lower parts from his upper parts, implying modesty and chastity, and for kabbalistic reasons, Hasidim button their clothes right over left. Some details of their dress are shared by non-Hasidic Haredim. In 1819, a small Hasidic community had been established in Hebron, later becoming a center for Lubavitch Hasidim. 16981760), known as the Baal Shem Tov ("Master of the Good Name", acronym: "Besht"), is considered the founder of Hasidism. He symbolized the new era, brokering peace between the small Hasidic sect in Hungary to its opponents. It all comes to a head when his father is sent abroad by the Rebbe to rebuild Ladover communities in Europe, after the devastation of the Holocaust, and also to provide a spiritual home for Jews trying to get out of Russia, where they are having a hard time under the Communist regime. There are several "courts" with many thousands of member households each, and hundreds of smaller ones. a book about Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic community, have two competing factions led by the grand rabbis Aaron and Zalman Teitelbaum, Orthodox voters took charge of the school board, claims by Puerto Rican residents who argued the Hasidic community was being favored for public housing, use of racial quotas in a voting reapportionment plan, once drew more than 10,000 members of the Hasidic community to a rally, helped bring water from the New York City drinking supply to Kiryas Joel, faced scrutiny in 2019 for acting too slowly to declare a public health emergency, cases were often higher in their neighborhoods, met with leaders and hired Orthodox staff members, vowed to address a rise in antisemitic attacks. The Hasidic schools face the prospect of significantly tougher oversight after New York State officials recently ruled that a private Hasidic Jewish boys school in Brooklyn was violating the law by failing to provide a basic education. Some Hasidic groups, such as Satmar and Toldot Aharon, actively oppose the everyday use of Hebrew, which they consider a holy tongue. [36], The Bobover dynasty, founded 1881 in Bobowa, West Galicia, constitutes some 4,500 households in total, and has undergone a bitter succession strife since 2005, eventually forming the "Bobov" (3,000 households) and "Bobov-45" (1,500 households) sects. Later, especially after World War II, the dynasties retained the names of their original Eastern European settlements when moving to the West or Israel. This linguistic transformation paralleled that of the word tzaddik, "righteous", which the Hasidic leaders adopted for themselves though they are known colloquially as Rebbes or by the honorific Admor. Of those, 62,062 resided in Israel and 53,485 in the United States, 5,519 in Britain and 3,392 in Canada. [37], The largest sect in the world, with some 26,000 member households, which constitute 20% of all Hasidim, is Satmar, founded in 1905 in the namesake city in Hungary and based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Kiryas Joel. In the late 17th century, several social trends converged among the Jews who inhabited the southern periphery of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, especially in contemporary Western Ukraine. The Hasidic community is organized in a sect known as "court" (Hebrew: , chatzer; Yiddish: , Hoif from German Hof/Gerichtshof). He is withdrawn, due to being in Siberia (in internment) for many years. We were working hand in glove with them, and they were highly organized and highly motivated.. The community numbered 376 in 1805 (total population 2,634) and 1,699 in 1847. The current Rebbe is Yaakov Aryeh Alter. Thus, for example, the "court" established by Joel Teitelbaum in 1905 at Transylvania remained known after its namesake town, Sathmar, even though its headquarters lay in New York, and almost all other Hasidic sects likewise albeit some groups founded overseas were named accordingly, like the Boston (Hasidic dynasty). The growing conservatism of the new movement which at some occasions drew close to Kabbalah-based antinomian phraseology, as did the Sabbateans, but never crossed the threshold and remained thoroughly observant and the rise of common enemies slowly brought a rapprochement, and by the second half of the 19th century, both sides basically considered each other legitimate. According to Hasidic legend, the fate of Napoleon was decided not on the battlefields, but between the theurgic prayers and deeds of the Hasidic Rebbes. In the immediate post-war years, the entire movement seemed to teeter on the precipice of oblivion. [5], Among the traits particularly associated with Hasidism in common understanding which are in fact widespread, is the importance of joy and happiness at worship and religious life though the sect undoubtedly stressed this aspect and still possesses a clear populist bent. [36] None succeeded Schneerson, and the sect operates as a large network of communities with independent leaders. Few remaining Hasidim, especially of Chabad, continued to practice underground for decades. Many dynasties have their own specific adaptation of Nusach Sefard; some, such as the versions of the Belzer, Bobover, and Dushinsky Hasidim, are closer to Nusach Ashkenaz, while others, such as the Munkacz version, are closer to the old Lurianic. Thus, children are still learning Yiddish today, and the language, despite predictions to the contrary, has not died. Many of them wear a black silk bekishe that is trimmed with velvet, known as stro-kes or samet, and in Hungarian ones, gold-embroidered. My Name is Asher Lev follows a Hasidic teenage boy with emotionally wounded parents; Asher's father travels constantly, and his mother suffers anxious spells after her brother's death. It is the dialectic opposite of God's contraction into the world.[10]. They are mainly affiliated with the Edah HaChareidis and the Central Rabbinical Congress. This includes long, conservative skirts and sleeves past the elbow, as well as covered necklines. In last years Democratic mayoral primary, Zalman Teitelbaums group supported Mr. Yang; Aaron Teitelbaums group switched from Mr. Yang to Mr. Adams in the final weeks, as Mr. Adams rose in the polls. Their worldly authority was perceived as part of their long-term mission to elevate the corporeal world back into divine infinity. The maskilim themselves detested Hasidism as an anti-rationalist and barbaric phenomenon, as did Western Jews of all shades, including the most right-wing Orthodox such as Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer. Twenty-five synagogues. The fourth major dynasty, with some 7,000 households, is Belz, established 1817 in namesake Belz, south of Lviv. At least two leaders radicalized in this sphere and caused severe controversy: Nachman of Breslov, who declared himself the only true Tzaddiq, and Menachem Mendel Schneerson, whom many of his followers believed to be the Messiah. When the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, appeared in Galicia and Congress Poland in the 1810s, it was soon perceived as a dire threat. And when Representative Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for governor, recently visited Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn, he was warmly received on the streets. The common adherents were taught they may engage it only mildly, through small deeds like earning money to support their leaders. Therefore, it was accepted "there can be no Tzaddiq but the son of a Tzaddiq". Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn insisted on royal splendour, resided in a palace and his six sons all inherited some of his followers. Some courts nearly abolished traditional specified times by which prayers must be conducted (zemanim), to prepare and concentrate. In 1912, many Hasidic leaders partook in the creation of the Agudas Israel party, a political instrument intended to safeguard what was now named Orthodox Judaism even in the relatively traditional East; the more hard-line dynasties, mainly Galician and Hungarian, opposed the Aguda as "too lenient". Its complex, existentialist philosophy drew many to it. A police-led motorcade of the Lubavitcher grand rebbe had fatally struck a Black child, and in the melees that followed, a visiting Australian Hasidic scholar was stabbed to death. A Chozer, "repeater", selected for his good memory, commits the text to writing after the Sabbath (any form of writing during the Sabbath itself being forbidden). Ben Eliezer and his acolytes used the very old and common epithet Hasidim, "pious"; in the latter third of the 18th century, a clear differentiation arose between that sense of the word and what was at first described as "New Hasidism", propagated to a degree by the Maggid and especially his successors.[2]. Once a title for an instructor in Chabad and Breslov only, the institutionalized nature of the established "courts" led many adherents to seek guidance and inspiration from persons who did not declare themselves new leaders, but only Mashpi'im. A common saying to explain this (attributed to the Third Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson I) goes, "Better to eat in order to pray, than to pray in order to eat", implying it is better to eat before prayer if due to the later time of prayers finishing one will be hungry and unable to properly concentrate. The turn of the century saw several prominent new, fourth-generation tzaddiqim. We try to make sure that our views are known by the candidates, Rabbi Zwiebel said. [47] While the Rebbes still had a vast base of support, it was aging and declining. The true divine essence of man the soul may then ascend and return to the upper realm, where it does not possess an existence independent from God. Apart from the gathering at noon, the third repast on Sabbath and the "Melaveh Malkah" meal when it ends are also particularly important and an occasion for song, feasting, tales, and sermons. Numerous Breslov communities, each led by its own rabbis, now have thousands of full-fledged followers, and far more admirers and semi-committed supporters; Marcin Wodziski estimated that the fully committed population of Breslovers may be estimated at 7,000 households. Hasidism elaborated the notion of the Tzaddiq into the basis of its entire system so much that the very term gained an independent meaning within it, apart from the original which denoted God-fearing, highly observant people. Bianca Pallaro, Brian Rosenthal and Eliza Shapiro contributed reporting. This practice has fallen into disuse among most. He is the only child of a devout Orthodox couple Rivkeh and Aryeh Lev. Upon the death of Menachem Nachum Twersky of Chernobyl, his son Mordechai Twersky succeeded him. Members also help raise money for candidates. Balog, Yeshayahu P./Morgenstern, Matthias (2010), This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 05:08. It might not fall completely, but it certainly will be forced to adapt to the 21st century. This panentheistic concept was derived from Lurianic discourse, but greatly expanded in the Hasidic one. Hasidim lend great importance to kavana, devotion or intention, and their services tend to be extremely long and repetitive. After he was eliminated, many of his votes went to Mr. Adams. In the new states of the Interbellum era, the process was only somewhat slower. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The Holocaust hit the Hasidim particularly hard because they were easily identifiable and because they were almost unable to disguise themselves among the larger populace due to cultural insularity. Chabad's own internal phone-books list some 16,800 member households. There are perhaps a dozen major Hasidic movements today, the largest of which (with perhaps 100,000 followers) is the Lubavitch group headquartered in Brooklyn, NY. He also meets and befriends Yudel Krinsky, a recent immigrant . The Holy Jew pursued a more introspective course, maintaining that the Rebbe's duty was to serve as a spiritual mentor for a more elitist group, helping them to achieve a senseless state of contemplation, aiming to restore man to his oneness with God which Adam supposedly lost when he ate the fruit of the Lignum Scientiae. In 1812, a schism occurred between the Seer of Lublin and his prime disciple, the Holy Jew of Przysucha, due to both personal and doctrinal disagreements. Some of the books that I saw in the yeshivas maybe they were not Shakespeare but they still were scholarly works, he said. The Baal Shem Tov added two segments to Friday services on the eve of Sabbath: Psalm 107 before afternoon prayer, and Psalm 23 at the end of evening service. [3] The difficulty of separating the movement's philosophy from that of its main inspiration, Lurianic Kabbalah, and determining what was novel and what merely a recapitulation, also baffled historians. At Mr. Giulianis inauguration, the mayor invited Hasidic leaders onstage as a gesture of gratitude and respect, said Bruce Teitelbaum, a top Giuliani aide. The state has ordered the city to work with the Brooklyn yeshiva to come up with an improvement plan, and the forthcoming negotiations and the larger threat of state oversight are being characterized by the Hasidic community as an affront to its independence and belief structure. Another phenomenon was the revival of Breslov, which remained without an acting Tzaddiq since the rebellious Rebbe Nachman's 1810 death. Most Hasidic boys receive their first haircuts ceremonially at the age of three years (only the Skverrer Hasidim do this at their boys' second birthday). Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah wrote in his glossa on Isaac Luria's version of the Shulchan Aruch that, "One who wishes to tap the hidden wisdom, must conduct himself in the manner of the Pious. 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