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.
Unfamiliar with the customs and practices of Hasidim, Buczacz did not believe in the miracles performed by their rabbis; his wife and friends struggled to persuade him to take his sick son to a Hasidic rabbi, Levi Isaac of Berdychev. The latter persuaded him to study Kabbalah but attempting to reconcile these new views with his own prior beliefs (extreme Talmudists) nearly drove him mad.