The legend of the Baal-Shem
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TextNew York Harper c1955Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 222p.; glossaryContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- PT2603.U15 L425
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Translated from the German by Maurice Friedman..
Foreword. Introduction. 1 The life of the Hasidim. 2 The werewolf. 3 The prince of fire. 4 The revelation. 5 The martyrs and the revenge. 6 The heavenly journey. 7 Jerusalem. 8 Saul and David. 9 The prayer-book. 10 The judgement. 11 The forgotten story. 12 The soul which descended. 13 The psalm-singer. 14 The disturbed Sabbath. 15 The conversion. 16 The return. 17 From strength to strength. 18 The threefold laugh. 19 The language of the birds. 20 The call. 21 The shepherd
'This book consists of a descriptive account and twenty stories. The descriptive account speaks of the life of the Hasidim, a Jewish sect of eastern Europe which arose around the middle of the eighteenth century and still continues to exist in our day in deteriorated form. The stories tells the life of the founder of this sect, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, who was called the Baal-Shem, that is, the master of God's Name, and who lived from about 1700 to 1760...'
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