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With the upcoming holiday of Yud Tes Kislev coming up, it's worth examining the early opposition that the Chassidic movement faced at the early stages of the movement.
One of the ironies of the organized opposition, was it's role in enhancing the divergent groups of Chassidim into a movement with common identity.
With sporadic opposition rising in the early years, the opposition was raised a notch in 1772 with the first official proclamations of excommunication. This commenced a period of more than three decades of very active and occasionally violent opposition of the misnaggdim. The misnaggdim were led by the Vilna Goan who spearheaded the opposition.
In the first decade of the 19th century, the active stage had passed and the misnaggdim changed gears to a more passive ideological phase.
The Chassidic movement emerged from the opposition stronger, larger and with a more cohesive sense of identity and mission.

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