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The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke right to the most serious human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious activity founded in Eastern European countries by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Grasp of God's Name). Surviving in the first part of the 18th century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and fascinated followers from among the normal people, the poor, and the mystically inclined. Here Buber offers a delicate and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by 20 reports about the life of the Baal-Shem. This reserve is the earliest and one of the very most delightful of Buber's seven quantities on Hasidism and can be listened to not only as a collection of misconception but as an integral to understanding the central theme of Buber's viewpoint on the I and Thou romance.
