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(Paperback)
By: Yitzhak Buxbaum
ISBN: 9780826418883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Features the life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. The Baal Shem Tov, or the Besht, as he is commonly called, led a revival in Judaism that put love and joy at the center of religious life and championed the piety of the common folk against the rabbinic establishment.
