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The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name). Living in the first part of the eighteenth century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and attracted followers from among the common people, the poor, and the mystically inclined. Here Buber offers a sensitive and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is the earliest and one of the most delightful of Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or dialogical, relationship. "All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing fountains of life."--Martin Buber, from the introduction

Hasidim --- Hasidism. --- Baʻal Shem Ṭov, --- Baal-Shem. --- Conversion. --- Disturbed Sabbath. --- Eighteen Benedictions. --- Elohim. --- Forgotten Story. --- Gehenna. --- Hasidim. --- Hitlahavut. --- Jerusalem. --- Judgement. --- Kavana. --- Matza. --- Messiah. --- Minha. --- Prayer-Book. --- Pslam-Singer. --- Rabbanim. --- Rabbi Arye. --- Rabbi Naftali. --- Rabbi Shalom. --- Ritual Bath. --- Saul and David. --- Shekina. --- The Revelation. --- The Shepherd. --- Threefold Laugh. --- Werewolf. --- Zaddik. --- humility.