However, to be accepted by the masses, the Rebbe is expected to display behaviors such as humility, love for fellow Jews, and general devotion to God's service.

Modes of dress for Skverer Hasidim are generally similar to those of other Hasidic groups, especially that of Vizhnitz, Belz, and Klausenburg.

Weekday attire for men consists of long coats, called rekls, and velvet hats.

Today, married men also wear fur hats, called shtreimels, and knee-high leather boots known as shtievl.

The Haskala movement (the "Jewish Enlightenment"), was sweeping through Eastern Europe in the late eighteenth century, and Itzikl frequently attempted to debate and confront the Maskilim.

Dovidl's son, Rebbe Yakov Yosef (1899–1968) married Trana, the daughter of Rabbi Pinye of Ustilla and granddaughter of Yissachar Dov Rokeach of Belz, in 1925.

After spending a few years in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he established a community in what was then rural Rockland County, New York, and named it New Square, where he moved with a few followers in 1956.

Aside from its headquarters in New Square and its branches in New York City, the group maintains institutions in Canada, England, and Israel.

[citation needed] Reb Dovidl's eldest son, Rabbi Mordechai Twersky, died in the same year, before his father in Kiev.