"In the coming world they will not ask me—Why were you not Moses? They will ask me—Why were you not Zusya?"
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Quoted by Martin Buber in Tales of the Hassidim: The Early Masters, Shocken Books 1968, p. 141.
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Zusha of Hanipol
1718 – 1800
Rabbi Meshulam Zusha of Hanipol (Anipoli), Reb Zusha (also spelled Zusya) (1718–1800) was an Orthodox rabbi and one of the great Hassidic Rebbes of the third generation.
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