Baal Shem Tov (English Wikipedia)

Scholem, Gershom (March 31, 1961). "The Historical Image of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov". Yiddisher Kemfer (in Yiddish). 42 (1401). This article has been reprinted in Hebrew many times.

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Heschel, Abraham Joshua (1985). The circle of the Baal Shem Tov : studies in Hasidism. Internet Archive. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-32960-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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"לקוטי דבורים - חלק ג - שניאורסון, יוסף יצחק, 1880-1950". p. 42. Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
"לקוטי דבורים - חלק ג - שניאורסון, יוסף יצחק, 1880-1950". p. 43. Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-02-17.

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HQ, Blessing. "Blessinghq". Blessinghq. Blessinghq. Retrieved 16 May 2025.

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Rosman, Moshe (2013-06-20). Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-909821-11-8.
Simon Dubnow (1916). History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, pgs 223-224. Jewish Publication Society of America.
H. Sperling (1913). "Jewish Sectaries III: Chassidim" (The Jewish Review) p.137. G. Routledge and Sons, Limited.
בלינסון, משה אליעזר (1901). שלמי אמוני ישראל: קובץ מאמרים לספרות לשוננו הקדושה (in Hebrew). דפוס איסאקאוויטש ובעלינסאן.
לוינשטין, יוסף (1899). כרם חמד לבית ישראל הוא ספר דור ודור ודורשיו: ... קובץ סדר זמן ושנות פטירת חכמי ומנהיגי ישראל בכל דור ... גם סדר היאר צייטין ... (in Hebrew). דפוס שולדבערג ושותפו.

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Golding, Peretz. "The Baal Shem Tov—A Brief Biography – Jewish History". Chabad.org. Retrieved 2013-03-12.

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See The Maharal of Prague's Descent from King David, by Chaim Freedman, published in Avotaynu Vol 22 No 1, Spring 2006

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"The Historic Baal Shem Tov Shul In Medzhybizh, Ukraine". Creative Jewish Mom. May 4, 2018.

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Efron, John M. (2001). Medicine and the German Jews: A History. 91: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08377-4. Israel ben Eliezer Baal Shem-Tov (1700–1760), the founder of Hasidism, was in fact a faith healer and amulet writer, whose first followers in the 1730s and 1740s were patients who had come to him to be cured.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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The brilliance of the Baal Shem Tov now in English, Haaretz.

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"לקוטי דבורים – חלק ג – שניאורסון, יוסף יצחק, 1880–1950". hebrewbooks.org. p. 39. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
"לקוטי דבורים - חלק ג - שניאורסון, יוסף יצחק, 1880-1950". p. 42. Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
"לקוטי דבורים - חלק ג - שניאורסון, יוסף יצחק, 1880-1950". p. 43. Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-02-17.

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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "BA'AL SHEM-ṬOB, ISRAEL B. ELIEZER". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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Deflin, Kendall (25 April 2019). "The Fearless Flyers Release New Single, "The Baal Shem Tov" Featuring Joey Dosik". Live for Live Music. L4LM. Retrieved 26 April 2019.

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Sharona (2022-08-02). "Living Higher: Issue 922 - Mishpacha Magazine". Retrieved 2024-09-26.

nli.org.il

Shivḥei haBesht. Kopys: Israel Jaffe. 1815.

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אשד, אלי (2021-05-26). "הגולם של הרבי ישראל בעל שם טוב". המולטי יקום של אלי אשד (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2025-01-02.

onthemainline.blogspot.com

"Ba'al Shem Tov". tovste.info. Retrieved October 28, 2014;
"The Ba'al Shem ~~Tov~~". onthemainline. March 15, 2006. Retrieved October 28, 2014.

otzadikim.com

"OHALEI TZADIKIM- About Us". Archived from the original on 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2009-09-06.

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"Shivchei HaBesht 1:1". www.sefaria.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
"Shivchei HaBesht 2:2". www.sefaria.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.

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Margolin, Madison (2021-07-26). "Judaism's Psychedelic Renaissance". Tablet Magazine. The Baal Shem Tov, himself, the father of the Hasidic movement, was said to be a medicine man, an herbalist, and shaman of sorts, who would go around with his enchanted pipe, providing healing to people.

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"Ba'al Shem Tov". tovste.info. Retrieved October 28, 2014;
"The Ba'al Shem ~~Tov~~". onthemainline. March 15, 2006. Retrieved October 28, 2014.

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"OHALEI TZADIKIM- About Us". Archived from the original on 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2009-09-06.

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Jay, Rosman Murray (1996). Founder of Hasidism: a quest for the historical Ba'al Shem Tov. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520916760. OCLC 44962956.

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Kerstein, Benjamin (2018-09-27). "Kabbalah". www.worldhistory.org. Hasidism or Hasidic Judaism was ostensibly founded by an 18th-century CE itinerant mystic and faith-healer who came to be called the Baal Shem Tov functioning as a type of shaman.

yivoencyclopedia.org

Rosman, Moshe. "Ba'al Shem Tov". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. YIVO. Retrieved 2025-02-21. (Yisra'el ben Eli'ezer, 'the Besht'; ca. 1700–1760), healer, miracle worker, and religious mystic... founder of the modern Hasidic movement... in the 1730s, Yisra'el began using the title ba'al shem or ba'al shem tov (... meaning that he was a 'master of God's name,' which he could manipulate for theurgic purposes), denoting his skills as a healer—one Polish source refers to him as ba'al shem doctor—and his general qualifications as a shaman, a figure who could mediate between this world and the divine spheres in an effort to help people solve their... problems.

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The Fearless Flyers (25 April 2019). "The Baal Shem Tov". YouTube. Vulf Records. Retrieved 26 April 2019.