Baal Shem Tov
Kabbalistic commentary on Psalm 107 (attributed)
Traditional attribution
Kabbalistic commentary on Psalm 107 (attributed)
ספר מרבי ישראל בעל שם טוב (פירוש על תהלים קז)
Brief kabbalistic commentary on Psalm 107, the thanksgiving psalm of the redeemed, published more than forty years after the Besht's death. It illustrates the phenomenon, frequent in early-nineteenth-century Hasidic printing, of attributing to the founder texts that reinforced his authority. It is listed so that the reader knows it exists and why it is not ascribed to him.
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Authorship note
Printed in Zhytomyr in 1804 under the Besht's name. The Jewish Encyclopedia (1902) already considered it hardly genuine, and later scholarship does not count it among his texts.
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Baal Shem Tov
Sefer mi-Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov
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Zhytomyr, 1804
Según la Jewish Encyclopedia.
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
- 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
- Kohler, Kaufmann, y Louis Ginzberg. «Ba'al Shem-Ṭob, Israel b. Eliezer». The Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 2. Nueva York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902.
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