Unacquainted with the tendencies and modes of life of the Hasidim, Buczacz did not believe in the miracles of their rabbis; and his wife and friends had great difficulty in persuading him to take his sick son to a Hasidic rabbi, Levi Isaac of Berdychev. The latter, however, influenced him to take up the study of the Cabala; but in trying to reconcile these new views—so utterly antagonistic to those of the extreme Talmudists, which he himself had hitherto held—he nearly became insane.
Buczacz, unfamiliar with the practices of Hasidim, did not believe in their rabbis' miracles. His wife and friends tried to convince him to take his sick son to a Hasidic rabbi named Levi Isaac of Berdychev. However, this led Buczacz to study Kabbalah, but reconciling these new beliefs with his own prior Talmudist views nearly drove him insane.