Baal Shem Tov (English Wikipedia)
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academia.edu (Global: 121st place; English: 142nd place)
- 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.
archive.org (Global: 6th place; English: 6th place)
- 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.
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archive.today (Global: 14th place; English: 14th place)
- "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.
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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.
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- 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.
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- "Ba'al Shem Tov". tovste.info. Retrieved October 28, 2014;
"The Ba'al ShemTov". 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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- "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 ShemTov". 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.
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- 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.