Praises of Besht

Shivhei Besht - Collection of stories about Rabbi Israel, the son of Eliezer (1700-1760), nicknamed Baal-Shem-Tov, "overlooking good name", abbreviated by Befty, - the book is amazing, standing in the Jewish literature a mansion, despite the fact that it gave rise to a whole The genre of Hasida Agiography is the collection of stories from the life of the tsadikov, their scattered statements and teachings. In the space of the Russian language, such a product appears for the first time and submit to his reader - the task is very difficult. Stories about Bezhet for a long time passed from mouth to mouth while p. Dov-Ber, Reznik from the town of Ilintsy, did not assemble together the people who heard from people and did not record in the book