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Baal Shem Tob
Variant of Baal Shem Tov
Baal Shem Tov
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Baal· Shem· Tov (bäl′ s̸hem′ tōv′)
(born Israel ben Eliezer) 1700?-60; Jewish religious leader in Poland: founder of Hasidism
also Baal Shem Tob
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