Hasidim marking 300th year

Cleveland Jewish News | September 4, 1998 | Copyright

Cleveland Jewish News
09-04-1998
Hasidim marking 300th year

ARI ZIVOTOFSKY Freelance Writer

This year is being observed as the 300th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the Hasidic movement - Rav Yisrael ben Eliezer Baal Shem Tov - popularly known by his acronym "the BeShT."

The late 17th and early 18th centuries were tough times for the Jews of Eastern Europe. They were imprisoned in their impoverished ghettos and surrounded by a sea of hatred. The Chmilnicki-Cossack massacres of 1648-1649, and the appearance in 1665-1666 and subsequent conversion to Islam of the false messiah ...

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