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    A Baal Shem (Hebrew: בַּעַל שֵׁם, pl. Baalei Shem) was a historical Jewish practitioner of Practical Kabbalah and supposed miracle worker. Employing various...
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  • Yoel Baal Shem (Hebrew: ר' יואל בעל שם הראשון) was an Orthodox Jewish scholar of Halacha and Kabbalah who lived in Zamość during the 17th century. He became...
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  • ben Eliezer or Yisroel ben Eliezer (1698 – 22 May 1760), known as the Baal Shem Tov (/ˌbɑːl ˈʃɛm ˌtʊv, ˌtʊf/; Hebrew: בעל שם טוב) or as the BeShT, was...
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  • Baal Shem of Loans. The leadership of the movement was later handed down to Rabbi Yoel Baal Shem, who in turn handed it down to Rabbi Adam Baal Shem,...
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  • Samuel Shem (born 1944), pen-name of American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman Yoel Baal Shem, 17th century Orthodox Jewish scholar Zechariah Shem (born...
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    B'ezrat Hashem 'with the help of the Name'). Judaism portal Ancient of Days Baal Shem Besiyata Dishmaya Names of God Names of God in Zoroastrianism Names of...
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    of the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Yisrael ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov.[citation needed] He displayed extraordinary talent while still a...
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  • (1745–1807), a disciple of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch, the disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. Sassov was located in Eastern Galicia, and...
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  • Stepin (Hebrew: דוד מסטפין) (died 9 October 1810) was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid of Mezeritch. Segal was born to Rabbi Yehuda Leib,...
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    Elul (1609) – Death of Judah Loew ben Bezalel 18 Elul (1698) – Birth of Baal Shem Tov 18 Elul (1745) – Birth of rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi 23 Elul (2105...
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