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Chassidus and Kabbalah · In print
בעל שם טוב על התורה
The Baal Shem Tov al HaTorah
Volume I · Bereishis to Beshalach
The Baal Shem Tov wrote no book of his own. His words survive scattered through the works of his disciples and theirs, and Rabbi Shimon Menachem Mendel of Gavartchov gathered them from some 210 sefarim and set them in the order of the parshiyos, with his own notes, Mekor Mayim Chayim — printed in Lodz in 1938, on the eve of the destruction. The first volume brings Bereishis through Beshalach, with Chanukah: 567 teachings in fully vocalized Hebrew with an interlinear English translation, an explanation wherever a teaching turns on the letters of a word, a gematria or a term of Kabbalah, the compiler’s notes as footnotes, and “The Main Idea” of every teaching. The second volume, Yisro to V’Zos HaBerachah, is in preparation.
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Volume I
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The teachings of the Baal Shem Tov on the weekly parashah, gathered by Rabbi Shimon Menachem Mendel of Gavartchov from some 210 sefarim of his disciples and first printed in Lodz in 1938 — Bereishis through Beshalach, with Chanukah: 567 teachings. The complete vocalized Hebrew with an interlinear English translation, an explanation wherever a teaching turns on a wordplay, a gematria or a term of Kabbalah, the compiler’s Mekor Mayim Chayim notes as footnotes, the source of every teaching, “The Main Idea” of each one, and an Index of Subjects and an Index of Sources.
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