About the Baal Shem Tov

Through his teachings – and perhaps even more so through his passionate love – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, founder of the chassidic movement, permanently transformed the Jewish landscape. Forevermore changed was the Jewish perspective on G-d, the Torah, the Jewish nation, and every one of G-d’s creations—and the essential unity within all these previously-thought-to-be disparate components. More...

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