Baal Shem Tov
Tsafnat Pa'neah
Later compilation
Tsafnat Pa'neah
צפנת פענח

Jacob Joseph's third book, printed in Korets in 1782, with homilies on Exodus. It continues the transmission of the master's sayings and the polemic against scholars who study without fear of God, and helped fix the Hasidic vocabulary of cleaving, the raising of sparks and the righteous man's responsibility for his generation.
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Authorship note
Work of Jacob Joseph of Polonne, with quoted teachings of the Besht.
Editions and translations
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Baal Shem Tov
Tsafnat Pa'neah
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Korets, 1782
Primera edición.
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
- 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
- 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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