"Personally, I do not know at all what is the meaning of the word "religious" [frum]; also my father did not mention such a word to me. But it appears to me that it is a type of garment whose outward cover is pride, whose lining is anger, and which is sewn with the black of depression."
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Menachem Nochum Friedman
1823 – 1869
Rabbi Menachem Nochum Friedman (1823–1869) was the founder of the Shtefanesht dynasty of Hasidic Judaism.
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