TY - BOOK ID - 135350311 TI - The legend of the Baal-Shem AU - Buber, Martin AU - Friedman, Maurice S. PY - 1955 SN - 0691214336 PB - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Hasidim KW - Hasidism. KW - Baʻal Shem Ṭov, KW - Baal-Shem. KW - Conversion. KW - Disturbed Sabbath. KW - Eighteen Benedictions. KW - Elohim. KW - Forgotten Story. KW - Gehenna. KW - Hasidim. KW - Hitlahavut. KW - Jerusalem. KW - Judgement. KW - Kavana. KW - Matza. KW - Messiah. KW - Minha. KW - Prayer-Book. KW - Pslam-Singer. KW - Rabbanim. KW - Rabbi Arye. KW - Rabbi Naftali. KW - Rabbi Shalom. KW - Ritual Bath. KW - Saul and David. KW - Shekina. KW - The Revelation. KW - The Shepherd. KW - Threefold Laugh. KW - Werewolf. KW - Zaddik. KW - humility. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135350311 AB - The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name). Living in the first part of the eighteenth century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and attracted followers from among the common people, the poor, and the mystically inclined. Here Buber offers a sensitive and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is the earliest and one of the most delightful of Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or dialogical, relationship. "All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing fountains of life."--Martin Buber, from the introduction ER -