the Earliest Collection of Legends About the Founder of Hasidism)
by
Dan Ben-amos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1976
In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov is the first complete English translation of the tales surrounding the Besht, a rabbi and kabbalistic practitioner whose teachings bolstered the growing Hasidic movement in the eighteenth century. An important source on the life, philosophy, and mystical works of the...