Totalitarianism's objective is to empty the inclination to political power entirely out from the mass of the people and to situate that power entirely in the person of the leader.
In a way that is almost inadvertent, the same could be said for the ultra-Orthodox program. The diasporic aversion to the Jewish people's expression of political power led the ultra-Orthodox to empty out the autonomy of the mass of Jewish people from their individual decision-making, as much as possible, so that the community could be best led while under the severe constraints of exile and foreign rule.
Jewish leadership saw existential danger everywhere and had, therefore, and in their understanding, to exact absolute loyalty from the followership else they would all be lost.
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