Israel ben Eliezer (c. 1700 –1760), known as the Baal Shem Tov (/ˌbɑːl ˈʃɛm ˌtʊv, ˌtʊf/; Hebrew: בעל שם טוב) or BeShT (בעש"ט), was a Jewish mystic and...

Practical Kabbalah can be very damaging, he taught.[citation needed] The Ba'al Shem Tov learned and took part in traditional practices of Practical Kabbalah...

United States, the village of New Square in Rockland County, New York. Ba'al Shem Tov Rabbi Tzvi Rabbi Aaron of Tituv Rabbi Tzvi of Tituv (Hershele Skverer)...

the family of Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. The first chart shows the Baal Shem Tov's close family: his closest relatives...

101–104. Moshe Rosman, Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov. University of California Press (1996). pp. 37–38. Joseph Dan, Hasidism:...

Volume 2, p. 378 Netanel Lederberg (2007). Sod HaDa'at: Rabbi Israel Ba'al Shem Tov, His Spiritual Character and Social Leadership. Jerusalem: Rubin Mass...

predeceased by her daughter Tziporah Goldman, who passed away in 2022. Ba'al Shem Tov Rabbi Tzvi Aaron of Tituv Tzvi of Tituv (Hershele Skverer) Chana Sima...

Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm (1550–1583) and the Baal Shem of London (1708–1782). Yisrael Baal Shem Tov began his activity as a traditional Baal Shem, before...

2024. Aberbach, David (1 July 1993). "Mystical Union and Grief: the Ba'al Shem Tov and Krishnamurti". Harvard Theological Review. 86 (3). Cambridge, Massachusetts:...

טוב, בעש״ט (Besht, Ba'al Shem Tov) - Lit. Good Master of the [Divine] Name; alt. Master of the Good Name; Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov. See also ריב״ש בורא...

world. As further disseminated through the teachings of the Yisrael Ba'al Shem Tov, the pursuit of permitted physical pleasures is encouraged as a means...

work ever published, and the primary source for various sayings of the Ba‘al Shem Tov as well as members of his inner circle. It is "in the main a compilation...

"Israel Ba'al Shem Tov". Oxford Bibliography. Retrieved November 1, 2024. Leiman, Sid Z.; Schatz-Uffenheimer, Rivka (February 14, 2024). "Baʿal Shem Ṭov". Encyclopedia...

Baal Shem of London מ'בעל שד' ל'בעל שם'. Bialik Institute. ISBN 978-965-342-850-8. "Ba'al Shem Tov". tovste.info. Retrieved 28 October 2014;"The Ba'al Shem...

Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer (1700–1760), also known as the Ba'al Shem Tov (or Besht). It originated in a time of persecution of the Jewish people...

also a prominent rabbi and scholar, as well as a contemporary of the Ba'al Shem Tov. He was injured in a fall from a window on Simchat Torah night, following...

Shem-Tov ben Joseph ibn Falaquera, also spelled Palquera (Hebrew: שם טוב בן יוסף אבן פלקירה‎; 1225 – c. 1290) was a Spanish Jewish philosopher, poet, and...

Murray Jay (1996). Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov. University of California Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-91676-0. Mossakowski...

Baal Shem Tov, was present. There are many stories about him in the biography of Baal Shem Tov called Shivhei ha-Besht (In Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov)....

- An excerpt from "Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov" by Moshe Rosman at www.hasidicstories.com, summarising academic views...

the aliya of the Ramban and the students of the Vilna Gaon and the Ba'al Shem Tov, and the [rights of] Jews who lived in the 'Old Yishuv'." The ceremony...

philosophy recorded by its own author, in contrast to the works of the Ba'al Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezritch, whose words were transcribed by their disciples...

relying on any external "miracles" and "wonders". On the other hand, the Ba'al Shem Tov was more focused on bringing encouragement and raising the morale of...

chasidism, having studied with the Maggid of Mezeritch, grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov who is said to have received the Lurianic Kabbalah from the place of...

Ḥayim (1988). Shelomo Siʼani; Siman-Tov Maghori (eds.). Maimonides' Mishne Torah, According to Ba'al Shem Tov (in Hebrew). Vol. 2 (Zera'im, Hil. Terumot...

Yisroel Baal Shem Tov. His followers published a collection of stories about his life, Shivhei ha-Besht (ln Praise of the Ba'al Shem Tov), in 1815. The...

separation and sweetening: 343  that originated in the study halls of the Ba'al Shem Tov and his followers.: 135  He has thus severed the chain of non-Jewish...

States and was derived from the German Grossrabbiner. Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, is regarded by Hasidim as the first Hasidic rebbe...

known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Yaakov ben haRosh, was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the Ba'al ha-Turim ("Author...

Chaim Ozer Grodzinski and the Vilna Gaon, and a gravestone for the Ba’al Shem Tov. His wife accompanied him on all the trips but two, when his daughters...