Rivka Schatz-Uffenheimer
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LOCATION: Jerusalem, Israel
Edmonton Professor of Jewish Mysticism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author of Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth-Century Hasidic Thought and others.
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Baʿal Shem Ṭov was the charismatic founder (c. 1750) of Ḥasidism, a Jewish spiritual movement characterized by mysticism and opposition to secular studies and Jewish rationalism. He aroused controversy by mixing with ordinary people, renouncing mortification of the flesh, and insisting on the…
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