 From the Baal Shem Tov sprang the wide ongoing schools of Hasidic Judaism, each with different approaches and thought.Hasidism instituted a new concept of Tzadik leadership in Jewish mysticism, where the elite scholars of mystical texts now took on a social role as embodiments and intercessors of Divinity for the masses.With the 19th-century consolidation of the movement, leadership became dynastic.