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
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