ZD – I’m not sure that I agree with that. At least not in this context. It was a choice to start Chassidus. No one forced the Baal Shem Tov to start Chassidus. It was a choice to start the Mizrachi movement. They weren’t forced to.
The Nazis killed the Yidden in Europe and destroyed the Yeshivas there. We didn’t do that.
In any case, it was a sociological change and not a hashkafic change.