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Biography of Baal Shem Tov
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The founder of modern Hasidism was the Polish-born Israel ben Eliezer (ca. 1700-ca. 1760), who is generally known as Baal Shem Tov (Good Master of the Name). Israel ben Eliezer was born to aged parents in Okopy, a small town in the Ukraine. He was...


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Baal Summary
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BAAL. The name Baal (bʿl) is a common Semitic appellative meaning "lord" that is used as a proper name for the West Semitic storm god in ancient Near Eastern texts dating from the late third millennium BCE through the Roman period....
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Baʿal Shem Tov Summary
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BAʿAL SHEM TOV (master of the good name), popular designation for Yisraʾel ben Eliʿezer (c. 1700–1760), the founder of the Hasidic movement in eastern Europe, who is also known by the acronym BeSHT (commonly written...
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Israel Ben Eliezer : Judaic Terms
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(Besht, Baal Shem Tov) (1700–1760) Founder of *Hasidism. Israel ben Eliezer’s life is the subject of many legends. As a teacher and leader, he travelled round the communities of Eastern Europe. His teachings were based on the *Kabbalah and...
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Baal Shem Tov : Judaism Terms
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(Hebrew: “Master of the Good Name”) Designation for Israel b. Eliezer, founder of Hasidism (ca. 1700–1760), often referred by the acronym “Besht.” Early in his life a popular healer, from the 1730s onward he undertook...
 


 

Israel ben Eliezer

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