In the same way, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Kabbalistic groups in Europe adopted the Lurianic-Sephardic rite in preference to the Ashkenazi. This was however the custom of very restricted circles, and did not come into widespread public use until the rise of middle to late 18th-century Hasidism.
In both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Kabbalistic groups in Europe adopted the Lurianic-Sephardic rite over the Ashkenazi. This practice was confined to a small number of circles and did not become widely used until the emergence of middle to late 18th-century Hasidism.