The Light And Fire Of The Baal Shem Tov
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Author | : Yitzhak Buxbaum |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2006-09-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780826418883 |
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 | : Moshe Rosman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520916760 |
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. 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
Author | : Rabbi Yehoshua Starrett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780985356231 |
This book contains the holy words of the holy and awesome Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov of blessed memory for everlasting life in the world to come. These words are from the books of Rav Yaakov Yoseph of Polonoye of blessed memory, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov.
Author | : Yitzhak Buxbaum |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2002-11-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0787966959 |
What is a "holy woman," or a holy man for that matter? According to the Jewish mystics, a holy person is someone who has not lost the holiness that every baby is born with. A holy person is someone who fulfills it. Stories about Jewish holy women have rarely been collected in such an engaging and entertaining form. The tales display a specifically female Jewish spirituality, giving us a peek into a world of devotional beauty that focuses on kindness. These stories of laughter and tears, humility and bravery, striving and trance, have an appeal spanning the denominational spectrum: they are spiritual nourishment for the soul. The rabbis say there are both male and female angels and angels are on earth as well as in heaven. These tales enhance our appreciation of the female angels on earth.
Author | : Ani Tuzman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2016-09-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780997484403 |
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 | : Simcha Raz |
Publisher | : Jason Aronson |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780765799722 |
Collected in this volume are over one thousand of the most popular and trenchant aphorisms of the past several centuries of hasidic teaching that have captured the heart and soul of world Jewry since the birth of hasidism. Most remarkable about these pithy hasidic sayings is how they combine the wisdom of Jewish tradition with sound modern psychological and spiritual insight.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0195093887 |
Over 150 tales from the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore.
Author | : Yitzhak Buxbaum |
Publisher | : Jason Aronson |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1999-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1568212062 |
The Jewish mystic path and its practices to attain God-consciousness.
Author | : Yitzhak Buxbaum |
Publisher | : Yitzhak Buxbaum |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Zalman Schacter-Shalomi |
Publisher | : Monkfish Book Publishing |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1939681626 |
A Heart Afire is an intimate, guided tour of many of the lesser-known and previously unpublished stories and teachings of the first three generations of Hasidism, especially those of the Ba'al Shem Tov, his heirs (male and female) and the students of his successor, the Maggid of Mezritch.