Baal Shem Tov
Toledot Ya'akov Yosef
Later compilation
Toledot Ya'akov Yosef
תולדות יעקב יוסף
Homilies on the weekly Torah portions printed in Korets in 1780: the first Hasidic book ever published. Jacob Joseph, former rabbi of Shargorod expelled by his community for his attachment to the Besht, develops a severe critique of the rabbinic elite of his time and a theory of the relation between "men of form" (the learned) and "men of matter" (the people). The master's quotations are, for historians, the most reliable corpus of his thought, though mediated by the disciple's elaboration. It was one of the books the *mitnagdim* condemned most harshly.
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Authorship note
Work of Jacob Joseph ha-Kohen of Polonne (c. 1710–1784), not of the Besht. It is listed here because it is the oldest and richest source of his teachings: hundreds of passages introduced with "I heard from my master".
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Hebreo
Baal Shem Tov
Toledot Ya'akov Yosef
The Conscious LibraryToledot Ya'akov Yosef
Korets, 1780
Primera edición.
Baal Shem Tov
Sefer Toledot Ya'akov Yosef
The Conscious LibrarySefer Toledot Ya'akov Yosef
1965
Reimpresión moderna registrada en Open Library.
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
- 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 Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader (Immanuel Etkes) · 2000
- The Circle of the Baal Shem Tov (Abraham J. Heschel) · 1985
Sources
- Jacob Joseph ha-Kohen de Polonne, Toledot Ya'akov Yosef, Korets, 1780; texto hebreo en Sefaria.
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