The Lubavitcher Rebbe recounted this extraordinary tale: Once a group of leading Yeshivah scholars in Poland visited Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov in his Sukkah. After closely inspecting the structural ...
Baal Shem Tov was of humble origins and not formally educated, yet he was deeply influenced by the Jewish mystical writings of the Kabbalah. In Eastern Europe a movement every bit as enthusiastic and ...