Founder of Hasidism: a quest for the historical Ba'al Shem Tov
The eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic, Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - is one of the key figures in Jewish history. As the progenitor of Hasidism and the perceived spokesman for the warm, humane side of Jewish religious observance, he profoundly influenced...
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| Summary: | The eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic, Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - is one of the key figures in Jewish history. As the progenitor of Hasidism and the perceived spokesman for the warm, humane side of Jewish religious observance, he profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. To understand the Besht is to understand an essential element in the making of modern Jewish life. The Ba'al Shem Tov is an elusive subject for historians because documentary evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal. Much of what is believed about him is based on stories that were compiled in Shivhei Ha-Besht (In Praise of the Besht) more than a generation after his death. Human forgetfulness and the hagiographic objectives of the storytellers and the editors have assured that many of these stories serve more to mythologize than to describe the Besht Rosman's study casts a bright new light on the traditional stories about the Besht, confirming and augmenting some, challenging others. Most important, it overturns the widespread belief that the Ba'al Shem Tov was a religious revolutionary and a rebel against the clerical and communal establishment. Rosman finds, on the contrary, that the Besht was quite representative of the existing social, religious, and political order, a holy man who conformed to expected patterns of behavior. The evidence indicates that he made moderate changes, which led eventually to the development of Hasidism's mature institutions |
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Founder of
Hasidism
A Quest for the Historical
Ba'al Shem Tov
Moshe Rosman
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley • Los Angeles • London
Contents
Acknowledgments jx
Note to the Reader xi
Introduction i
PART I CONTEXT 9
1 Ba'al Shem Tov n
2 Hasidism before Hasidism 27
3 A Country in Decline? 42
4 Mie,dzyboz: A Place in Time and Space 63
5 The Contentions of Life 83
PART II TEXTS 95
6 The Holy Epistle 97
7 More Besht Correspondence 114
8 Testimonies 127
9 Life Stories 143
10 Light from the Archives 159
viii Contents
PART III IMAGES
iiA Person of His Time
12 From the Historical Besht to the Usable Besht:
The Image of the Ba'al Shem Tov
in Early Habad
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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| spelling | Rosman, Moshe 1949- Verfasser (DE-588)172654289 aut Founder of Hasidism a quest for the historical Ba'al Shem Tov Moshe Rosman Berkeley [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 1996 XI, 303 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Contraversions 5 The eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic, Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - is one of the key figures in Jewish history. As the progenitor of Hasidism and the perceived spokesman for the warm, humane side of Jewish religious observance, he profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. To understand the Besht is to understand an essential element in the making of modern Jewish life. The Ba'al Shem Tov is an elusive subject for historians because documentary evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal. Much of what is believed about him is based on stories that were compiled in Shivhei Ha-Besht (In Praise of the Besht) more than a generation after his death. Human forgetfulness and the hagiographic objectives of the storytellers and the editors have assured that many of these stories serve more to mythologize than to describe the Besht Rosman's study casts a bright new light on the traditional stories about the Besht, confirming and augmenting some, challenging others. Most important, it overturns the widespread belief that the Ba'al Shem Tov was a religious revolutionary and a rebel against the clerical and communal establishment. Rosman finds, on the contrary, that the Besht was quite representative of the existing social, religious, and political order, a holy man who conformed to expected patterns of behavior. The evidence indicates that he made moderate changes, which led eventually to the development of Hasidism's mature institutions Ba'al Shem Tov <ca. 1700-1760> Israel ben Eliezer baal sem Tov <1700?-1760> ram Baʻal Shem Ṭov <ca. 1700-1760> Yisraʾel ben Eliʿezer Baʿal Shem Ṭov 1700-1760 (DE-588)119235587 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1700-1800 Chassidisme gtt Hassidisme - 18e siècle ram Hassidisme - Ukraine ram Rabbins - Ukraine - Biographies ram Geschichte Hasidim Ukraine Biography Hasidism History 18th century Rabbis Ukraine Biography (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Yisraʾel ben Eliʿezer Baʿal Shem Ṭov 1700-1760 (DE-588)119235587 p DE-604 Contraversions 5 (DE-604)BV009893508 5 HEBIS Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=007313075&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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