Chasidut su Salmi 34:8

This is all the more true for us, for whom most of the things we need to speak of in hasidism, and most of the books which need to be written, regard the breadth of hasidism rather than its depth. This is so regarding the revealed facets of Torah as well.⁵⁷³R. Shapiro now applies the notion of unfolding to questions of curriculum and educational foci, such as breadth versus depth of study. It is true of a student of Torah who has already filled his belly⁵⁷⁴See Maimonides, Laws of the Foundations of the Torah 4:13. with Torah, that when he discovers greater depth in the commentaries and sees deeper insights in the Gemara [Talmud], Rashi and Tosafot, his desire to diligently engage in Torah is aroused. But will deep insights help the youth who have abandoned Torah study because they do not want or are unable to strengthen and expend effort in it? Will we rectify this abandonment and draw them close to Torah by adding books with greater depth? If we want to benefit them, we must write books with greater breadth of Torah, which will make it easier from them from the beginning, with minimal efforts, to understand G’R’T [Gemara, Rashi, Tosafot]. Then, when they ‘taste and see that it is good,’⁵⁷⁵Psalms 34:8. they will expend effort and toil, even in depth. The same is true with hasidism: Now we must unfold and develop along with the generation; for how will it help us to teach them from the deep secrets of hasidism, if they will not understand them? And even if they do, it will be only with their intellects, for they will not expend effort to become sanctified, to become hasidim, with their entire selves.⁵⁷⁶The strategy of merely increasing traditional learning as a bulwark against attrition is therefore deemed either totally inefficacious or, at best, insufficient.