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1. Ba'al Shem Tov: Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר ‎ August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, was an eighteenth century Jewish mystic and the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He was born to parents named Eliezer and Sara ... [100%] 2023-02-03
2. Ba'al Shem Tov: Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר ‎ August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, was an eighteenth century Jewish mystic and the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He was born to parents named Eliezer and Sara ... [100%] 2023-02-04
3. Ba'al Shem Tov: Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר ‎ August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, was an eighteenth century Jewish mystic and the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He was born to parents named Eliezer and Sara ... [100%] 2023-02-04
4. Ba'Al: Hebrew word for possessor or owner of an object. In connection with many nouns, it expresses some relation between the person and an object. Many of these combinations are found in Bible phraseology, and are still used, especially among the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
5. Ba'Al Shem: Designation of certain people who were supposed to work miracles through the name of God. This belief in the miraculous power of the Sacred Name is very old, having a history that covers more than two thousand years (compare Shem ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
6. Ba'Al And Ba'Al-Worship: Biblical Data: Altar of Ba'al at Petra, Idumæa. The wide-spread and primitive Semitic root ("ba'al") may be most nearly rendered in English by "possess. The term "Ba'al," therefore, which is usually explained as meaning "lord," is ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
7. Ba'Al Toḳea': Term applied to the person who blows the Shofar. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
8. Ba'Al Ha-Bayit: In more modern usage, the constituent members of a congregation as contrasted with the "toshabim" (transient members or strangers). The Ba'ale Battim consist of those members who pay over a certain amount for their seats in the synagogue. In ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
9. Elijah Ba'Al Shem Of Chelm: Polish rabbi; born in 1550; died at Chelm. About 1565 he entered the yeshibah of Rabbi Solomon Luria of Lublin, and, after receiving the rabbinical ordination, became rabbi of Chelm, which position he held until his death. Elijah Ba'al ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [44%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
10. Ba'Al Shem-Ṭob, Israel B. Eliezer: Founder of the sect of Ḥasidim; born about 1700; died at Miedzyboz (Medzhibozh), May 22, 1760. The little biographical information concerning him that exists is so interwoven with legends and miracles that in many cases it is hard to arrive ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Meïr (Meïr Ba'Al Ha-Nes = "Meïr The Miracle-Worker"): Tanna of the second century (fourth generation); born in Asia Minor. The origin of this remarkable scholar, one of the most striking figures of his age, is wrapped in obscurity. According to a haggadah, he was a descendant of Nero ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [33%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
12. Jacob Ben Asher (Known Also As Ba'Al Ha-Ṭurim): German codifier and Biblical commentator; died at Toledo, Spain, before 1340. Very little is known of Jacob's life; and the few glimpses caught here and there are full of contradictions. Zerah ("Ẓedah la-Derek," Preface), Jacob was the third ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [33%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
13. Heilprin, Joel Ben Uri (Also Known As Ba'Al Shem Ii.): Galician thaumaturge; lived at Satanow in the first half of the eighteenth century. Possessed of a fair knowledge of medicine and physics, he pretended to effect cures and perform miracles by means of the Cabala and the Holy Name. In ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [31%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
14. Morosini, Giulio (Samuel Ben Naḥmias B. David B. Isaac B. David Ba'Al Teshubah): Italian convert from Judaism to Christianity; born at Venice 1612; died in 1687. He was descended from a wealthy family which traced its ancestry back to Nehemiah. His great-grandfather left Spain on the expulsion of the Jews by Ferdinand ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [27%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]