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Who Are the 36 Hidden Tzadikim?
By Eliezer Danzinger
Question: Who or what are the 36 holy people? I get the gist of such people being alive at one time, but are they still around? What is their purpose? Is it all a mystery? Response: Our holy books say that every generation actually has a minimum (there ...
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Chassidic Movement Founded
1734
After many years as a member of the society of "hidden tzaddikim", living under the guise of an ignorant clay-digger, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov was instructed by his masters to reveal himself and begin to publicly disseminate his teachings. This he did ...
Jewish Calendar » Elul » Elul - 18 » Jewish History » Chassidic Movement Founded
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The Baal Shem Tov's Previous Life
From the Chassidic Masters
Late one night, there was a knock on his door. On his threshold stood an old man with a long white beard and a countenance as radiant as the heavens
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A Purim Secret
By Yerachmiel Tilles
After completing the circumcision, as he dipped his finger in the wine to place a drop in the baby’s mouth, the Chatam Sofer called out: "When wine goes in, secrets come out." Seventy years were to pass before the significance of the great sage's words ...
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The Baal Shem Tov's Sixteenth Birthday
From the writings & talks of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
When the man saw me he asked: "What is a small child doing all alone in the forest? Are you not afraid to be in the forest all by yourself?"
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Hidden and Revealed
By A. H. Glitzenstein
The holy beggar's face was transformed. His eyes began to glow with a divine light, and his coarse features assumed a sublime grace...
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Visit to the Hidden Mashiach
By Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Bechevski
The students of the Arizal discover a unique household
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A Water-Carrier Named Shmuel
Late in the afternoon, the Rebbe emerged from his room and instructed that the circumcision commence. The only clue to his delay was the mysterious sentence that passed his lips, "Ay... the Polotzk burial society..."
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The Baal Shem Tov's Mysterious Journey to Leipzig
By Tuvia Bolton
A tall thin man, wrapped in a black cloak, suddenly appeared at the open door. He looked silently around the room, walked to a corner and just stood there, staring at the Baal Shem Tov
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