Baal Shem Tov
Letters of the "Kherson genizah" (spurious)
Traditional attribution
Letters of the "Kherson genizah" (spurious)
גניזת חרסון
Hundreds of letters claiming to document the organisation of a clandestine movement of "hidden saints" before and during the Besht's life. Their anachronisms, their language and the absence of verifiable originals led critics to dismiss them, though for a time some writers accepted them. They are listed to warn the reader: accounts that rely on them have no historical value.
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Authorship note
Set of letters attributed to the Besht and his disciples that surfaced after the First World War and was partly published in Chabad circles in the 1930s. The great majority of historians consider them modern forgeries.
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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
- Founder of Hasidism (Moshe Rosman) · 1996
- The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader (Immanuel Etkes) · 2000
- The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov (Abraham J. Heschel) · 1985
Sources
- Biale, David; Assaf, David; Brown, Benjamin; Gellman, Uriel; Heilman, Samuel C.; Rosman, Moshe; Sagiv, Gadi; Wodziński, Marcin. Hasidism: A New History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
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