[Avodah] Nusach Ashkenaz in the Center of Chasidic Davening: The Interesting Cases of Belz, Sanz, and Berdichev

[Ben Waxman]

There is a hava mina in this statement that the Maggid was unauthorized 
to make these changes, a claim which I find dubious.
Ben

On 9/20/2018 11:04 PM, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
 > was apparently a later development in the movement, said to be from 
the time of the Maggid of Mezrich, rather than from R. Israel Baal Shem 
Tov, who is called its founder.