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...

mystical healer known as the Baal Shem Tov. His teachings imbued the esoteric usage of practical Kabbalah of Baalei Shem into a spiritual movement, Hasidic...

Mezeritcher Maggid, was a disciple of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov), the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and was chosen as his successor to...

illustrate 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...

(mostly Brooklyn and Rockland County, New York). Israel Ben Eliezer, the "Baal Shem Tov", is regarded as its founding father, and his disciples developed and...

world. Rebbe Yisrael Baal Shem Tov – founder of Hasidism Rebbe Dovber, the Maggid of Mezritch – primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov Rebbe Elimelech of...

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...

Deaf in Israel Tomer Shem-Tov (born 1978), Israeli football player Victor Shem-Tov (1915–2014), Israeli politician Baal Shem Tov (c. 1698–1760), Jewish...

Eliezar Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760), founder of Chasidism Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh (1757–1811), son of Udl the daughter of the Baal Shem Tov Rabbi Nachman...

philosophy begins with the teachings of Yisroel ben Eliezer known as the Baal Shem Tov and his successors (most notably Dov Ber the Maggid of Mezeritch and...

direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the 18th century founder of the Hasidic movement, through both the Baal Shem Tov's grandson Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh...

Hershele of Skver (Reb Hershele Skverer), a direct descendant of the Baal Shem Tov. When Rabbi Hershele settled in Skver (Skvira), he was elected to become...

oneself – and he brings this thought to nothingness — Baal Shem Tov, “DIVINE INSPIRATION - BAAL SHEM TOV ON THE TORAH” So all things or thinks not perfects...

Gerona, Moses Cordovero, Yosef Karo and Isaac Luria), Hasidic rabbis (Baal Shem Tov, Schneur Zalman of Liadi and Nachman of Breslov), Musar movement rabbis...

dynasty served as the earliest "trunk" of Hasidic Judaism, led by the Baal Shem Tov and his direct descendants. The Mezhbizh dynasty is more than just a...

Great scholars also followed the Baal Shem Tov as they saw the profound meanings of his new teachings. The Baal Shem Tov's successor Dov Ber of Mezeritch...

Kadmon, the sephirah of Keter and the soul essence of Yechidah. The Baal Shem Tov taught that the only reflection of Atzmus is the sincerity of the soul...

the general Hasidic movement, under the Baal Shem Tov and his successor the Maggid of Mezeritch. Baal Shem Tov's Niggun Shpoleh Zeideh's Niggun Niggun of...

of the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Yisrael ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov.[citation needed] He displayed extraordinary talent while still a child...

Shem, who in turn handed it down to Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov. According to the Chernobyler chassidic tradition, he was the grandfather...

Keter Shem Tov (Hebrew: כתר שם טוב, "The Crown of the Good Name") was the first published work of the teachings of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder...

particular meaning. [citation needed] The early Hasidic movement around the Baal Shem Tov developed from elite esoteric mystical circles of pneumatics, sometimes...

Vital; and from the 18th-century: the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the Baal Shem Tov, later Hasidic Masters, and the Lithuanian Jewish Orthodox leader and...

nobility and gentry. Israel ben Eliezer (1698–1760), also known as the Baal Shem Tov ('Master [of the] Good Name'), changed much of Jewish history in Eastern...

his shoelaces". A story of the Baal Shem Tov, Hasidic founder, represents this: The saintly prayers of the Baal Shem Tov and his close circle were unable...

Mendel was the son of Rabbi Yaakov Koppel Hasid (a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov) and a disciple of Rabbi Zev Wolf of Cherni-Ostrog, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh...

municipality of Tremelo Baal, Netherlands, a hamlet in the Dutch province Gelderland Baal I, 7th-century BC king of Tyre Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760), Jewish...

around-the-table nigunim, and are almost always sung without lyrics. The Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism, spoke of devekus nigunim as "songs that transcend...

founder of the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty. He was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezritch, and published one of the first works of...

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...