The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826418880 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Those familiar with quotations by this sage will rejoice in thechance to discover more from his deep well of insights into the presence of Godin the warp and the woof of our daily lives. If you don’t have enough money to buy it, pawn your shoes and run to the bookstore barefoot.” —Zalman Schachter-Salomi“Buxbaum has put his finger on the pulse of the values that lie at the heart of the Baal Shem Tov’s message and conveys them in words that speak to the heart of our generation.”—Arthur Green“Wow! What a feast for those who love storie
Entering Another World Ruhama To fully enjoy this book, begin by reading aloud. The "story-teller" sets the mood so that the soul may enter into another realm -- the realm of the mystical within the most simple aspects of life. Gradually the reader steps into the rhythm of the anthology of tales of the Baal Shem Tov, who is widely held to be the progenitor of the Chassidic movement.If the reader resists total immersion into this visi. A Masterpiece "The Light and Fire of the Baal Shem Tov" is an unforgettable portrait, but what it portrays is not so much a flesh-and-blood man as a human ideal. The Besht who emerges from Buxbaum's beautifully written labor of love is pious, humble, warm, passionate, compassionate, magical and learned. As Buxbaum recognizes, he's the type of figure you'd expect to find after the Messiah comes, not before, and yet he . Daniel Cohen said A living spiritual portrait of a, once, factual man. A profound and moving book on many levels. Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov or 'Besht' was the founder of the Hassidic movement among Eastern European Jews in the 1700's, which survives to this day in Israel, the United States and elsewhere.The author says: "I want it to be a book in which the Besht is alive", and: "the main goal is spiritual understanding." He succeeds in both, through the care in
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. 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.". This is a life, in stories, of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760), the founder of Hasidism. 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