biography
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Baal-Shem-Tov
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originally Israel ben Eliezer, also known by his acronym, Besht
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1699–1760)
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| biography:
| Jewish teacher and healer in Poland, born in Ukraine. He founded the Jewish spiritual movement of Hasidism c.1750. |
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