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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Polish-born Jewish religious leader and mystic who founded Hasidism.
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In his book Jewish Spiritual Practices, Yitzhak Buxbaum tells about the time the great eighteenth-century Hasidic rabbi known as the Baal Shem Tov traveled with Rabbi Yitzhak of Drobitch in the role of his personal assistant.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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In his book Jewish Spiritual Practices, Yitzhak Buxbaum tells about the time the great eighteenth-century Hasidic rabbi known as the Baal Shem Tov traveled with Rabbi Yitzhak of Drobitch in the role of his personal assistant.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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The Baal Shem Tov was a man so obsessed with G-dliness, he saw it everywhere he looked. “G-dliness is everything and everything is G-dliness, †he declared. “
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Chukat-Balak 5769 - July 3, 2009 ] 2008
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The Baal Shem Tov was a man so obsessed with G-dliness, he saw it everywhere he looked. “G-dliness is everything and everything is G-dliness, †he declared. “
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Chukat-Balak 5769 - July 3, 2009 ] 2008
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That was the accusation thrown at the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Chasidism, and at countless other great figures in Judaism.
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The Baal Shem Tov extolled the virtue of ordinary Jews who were not Rabbis.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Religious Extremists in Israel and How the Mainstream Must Combat It Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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A father once came to the Baal Shem Tov with a problem concerning his son.
Michael Levy: Amy Chua Vs. The Talmud Michael Levy 2011
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A father once came to the Baal Shem Tov with a problem concerning his son.
Michael Levy: Amy Chua Vs. The Talmud Michael Levy 2011
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The Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Chasidic movement, taught that one of the major themes of the sukkah, the booth Jews dwell in during the holiday, is divine inspiration.
Levi Ben-Shmuel: The Festival of Sukkot: 7 Nights, 7 Guests, 7 Inspirational Ways of Seeing 2010
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The Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Chasidic movement, taught that one of the major themes of the sukkah, the booth Jews dwell in during the holiday, is divine inspiration.
Levi Ben-Shmuel: The Festival of Sukkot: 7 Nights, 7 Guests, 7 Inspirational Ways of Seeing 2010
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