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Baal Shem Tov (Rabbi Israël ben Eliezer)

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הבעל שם טוב

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Founder of Hasidism in Podolia (Ukraine). His revolutionary teaching emphasized joy, fervent prayer, and the divine presence in all things, making spirituality accessible to the Jewish masses. Hasidism became the most important movement of renewal in modern Judaism.

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