Baal Shem Tov
The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader (Immanuel Etkes)
Academic study
The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader (Immanuel Etkes)
בעל השם: הבעש״ט — מאגיה, מיסטיקה, הנהגה
Study of the Besht's three dimensions (the baal shem who heals and exorcises, the mystic of the soul's ascents and the leader of a circle) based on the letter, Jacob Joseph's books and a critical reading of *Shivhei ha-Besht*, whose historical value the author defends against the scepticism of other historians.
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Authorship note
Monograph by Immanuel Etkes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), not a work by the Besht.
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English
Baal Shem Tov
The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader
The Conscious LibraryThe Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader
Brandeis University Press, 2005
Translation: Saadya Sternberg
ISBN 9781584654223
Other works by Baal Shem Tov
- Igeret ha-Kodesh (Letter to Abraham Gershon of Kuty) · 1750
- Tsava'at ha-Rivash (The Testament of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem) · 1793
- Keter Shem Tov (Crown of the Good Name) · 1794
- Shivhei ha-Besht (In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov) · 1815
- Toledot Ya'akov Yosef · 1780
- Ben Porat Yosef · 1781
- Tsafnat Pa'neah · 1782
- Ketonet Passim · 1866
- Likkutim Yekarim (Precious Gleanings) · 1792
- Degel Mahaneh Efrayim · 1810
- Sefer Baal Shem Tov (The Book of the Baal Shem Tov) · 1938
- Kabbalistic commentary on Psalm 107 (attributed) · 1804
- Letters of the "Kherson genizah" (spurious) · 1918
- Founder of Hasidism (Moshe Rosman) · 1996
- The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov (Abraham J. Heschel) · 1985
Sources
- Etkes, Immanuel. The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader. Trad. Saadya Sternberg. Waltham (Mass.): Brandeis University Press, 2005 (original hebreo: Ba'al ha-Shem, Jerusalén, Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2000).
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