Download or read book In Praise of Baal Shem Tov (Shivhei Ha-Besht written by Dan Ben-amos and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976-09-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov is the first complete English translation of the tales surrounding the Besht, a rabbi and kabbalistic practitioner whose teachings bolstered the growing Hasidic movement in the eighteenth century. An important source on the life, philosophy, and mystical works of the Besht, In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov also reveals the daily life and concerns of eastern European Hasidic Jews in the late 1700s.