Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism

Now available in English, a provocative new biography of the founder of Hasidism

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

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

The original teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of chasidism, on more than fifty subjects.