Author: Yosef Kaufmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945560392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Young children face their fears daily... fear of the dark, fear of going too high on the swing, fear of loud noises or of going to sleep in their own room. What better way to calm and reassure the children in your life than with a true story of one of our greatest leaders and teachers?My First Baal Shem Tov Book contains a sweet refrain and gorgeous illustrations that tell the story of young Yisrolik, a small boy just around their age. Yisrolik's father imparted a message to his only son that he spread far and wide... a message that informed his entire life and that inspires others to this very day:"I won't be scared. Oh, no, I won't! Hashem is always near.I know Hashem is with me, and there's nothing else to fear."The gentle comfort and encouragement in this lovely picture book will help bolster the confidence of children who need that helping hand to try new things and to conquer their fears. Laminated pages protect a book that boys and girls will want to hear and to look at over and over again.
Author: Yitzhak Buxbaum
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826418883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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This is a 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. He has been recognized as one of the greatest teachers in Jewish history, and much of what is alive and vibrant in Judaism today, in all denominations, derives from his inspiration. Abraham Joshua Heschel, who was descended from several illustrious Hasidic dynasties, wrote: "The Baal Shem Tov brought heaven to earth. He and his disciples, the Hasidim, banished melancholy from the soul and uncovered the ineffable delight of being a Jew.">
Author: Ani Tuzman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997484403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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1707. Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. A young orphan, deemed a simpleton and harder to tame than the wind, defies expectation and convention to follow an inner call. This rich reimagining of one of history's most revered and revolutionary mystics transports readers back in time to experience the true meaning of power and the timeless grace of love
Author: Moshe Rosman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520916760
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer--known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht--the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of the key figures in Jewish history; to understand him is to understand an essential element of modern Jewish life and religion. Because evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal, the Besht has long eluded historians and biographers. Much of what is believed about him is based on stories compiled more than a generation after his death, many of which serve to mythologize rather than describe their subject. Rosman's study casts a bright new light on the traditional stories about the Besht, confirming and augmenting some, challenging others. By concentrating on accounts attributable directly to the Besht or to contemporary eyewitnesses, Rosman provides a portrait drawn from life rather than myth. In addition, documents in Polish and Hebrew discovered by Rosman during the research for this book enable him to give the first detailed description of the cultural, social, economic, and political context of the Ba'al Shem Tov's life.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374516480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: Immanuel Etkes
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism
Author: Dovid Sears
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1568219725
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The original teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of chasidism, on more than fifty subjects.
Author: Yitzhak Buxbaum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787966967
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Jewish Tales of Mystic Joy reveals the happiness that awaits us if we strive for real spirituality. The stories are about pious rabbis and humble tailors, about dancing, singing, laughing, and crying, but their common denominator is always joyous ecstasy. Drawing us into a world of devotion, the tales allow us to taste the bliss that comes from a life lived from the very center of one's self. Each story comes alive in joy and produces a "holy shiver" that speaks to the soul.
Author: Martin Buber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hasidim
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Naftali Loewenthal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226490458
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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At the end of the eighteenth century the hasidic movement was facing an internal crisis: to what extent should the teachings of Baal Shem Tov and Maggid of Mezritch, with their implicit spiritual demands, be transmitted to the rank-and-file of the movement? Previously these teachings had been reserved for a small elite. It was at this point that the Habad school emerged with a communication ethos encouraging the transmission of esoteric to the broad reaches of the Jewish world. Communicating the Infinite explores the first two generations of the Habad school under R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi and his son R. Dov Ber and examines its early opponents. Beginning with the different levels of communication in the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid and his disciples, Naftali Loewenthal traces the unfolding of the dialectic between the urge to transmit esoteric ideas and a powerful inner restraint. Gradually R. Shneur Zalman came to the fore as the prime exponent of the communication ethos. Loewenthal follows the development of his discourses up to the time of his death, when R. Dov Ber and R. Aaron Halevi Horowitz formed their respective "Lubavitch" and "Staroselye" schools. The author continues with a detailed examination of the teachings of R. Dov Ber, an inspired mystic. Central in his thought was the esoteric concept of self-abnegation, bitul, yet this combined with the quest to communicate hasidic teachings to every level of society, including women. From the late eighteenth century onwards, the main problem for the Jewish world was posed by the fall of the walls of the social and political ghetto. Generally, the response was either to secularize, or abandon altogether, traditional Judaism or to retreat from the threatening modern world into enclave religiosity; by stressing communication, the Habad school opened the way for a middle range response that was neither a retreat into elitism nor an abandonment of tradition. Based on years of research from Hebrew and Yiddish primary source materials, Communicating the Infinite is a work of importance not only to specialists of Judaic studies but also to historians and sociologists.
