Elijah bar Aaron Judah Baal Shem (about 1520[contradictory] –1583) was a Polish rabbi and kabbalist who served as chief rabbi of Chełm. One of the most...

the early modern era. Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chełm is the oldest historical figure to have been contemporaneously known as a Baal Shem. He was known to study...

center, there is the coat of arms of Chełm. Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chełm (1550–1583), notable Jewish rabbi Solomon ben Moses of Chelm (1715/16–1781), notable...

Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem or Elijah Baal Shem may refer to: Rabbi Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm (born 1520) Rabbi Elijah Loans (born at Frankfurt-am-Main, 1555;...

teacher of Moses Isserles. Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm was also a cousin of Moses Isserles. Rabbi Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi Ha-rofeh Ashkenazi of Nicosia...

descendant of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chełm. He spent most of his life in Altona (now part of Hamburg, Germany). His son, Meshullam Solomon, served as rabbi of the...

Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm (1550–1583) and the Baal Shem of London (1708–1782). Yisrael Baal Shem Tov began his activity as a traditional Baal Shem,...

He authored critiques of mysticism in general and Lurianic Kabbalah in particular; his magnum opus was Milḥamoth ha-Shem (Wars of Hashem) against what...

as the "kabbalistic tree of life" to distinguish it from the tree of life that appears alongside the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Genesis...

described as mystical tendencies in them. In 1863, Elijah Benamozegh purported to establish that the main source of Spinoza's ontology is Kabbalah. The most recent...

community was such that Joseph ibn Shem-Tov drew arguments from it in his attacks against Maimonides, and even representatives of non-mystical Jewish thought...

who suffers", this is the query of Rav Hamnuna to Elijah. But according to Elijah's answer, ibid., the explanation of a "righteous man who suffers" is...

Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (Rosicrucian Society of England) or SRIA is a Rosicrucian esoteric Christian order formed by Robert Wentworth Little between...

of previous spiritual faults. Rather, as the Baal Shem Tov taught, even perfectly righteous Tzadikim need to return to God, in the higher Teshuvah of...

Chaim Luzzatto; early Hasidic masters such as the Baal Shem Tov, Schneur Zalman of Liadi and Nachman of Breslov, as well as virtually all later Hasidic masters;...

- notably, on the early Hasidic movement, including the Baal Shem Tov; Shneur Zalman of Liadi was described as a "Shelah Yid", and Shelah clearly echoes...

about the nature of the cosmos as a whole may be inferred from truths about human nature, and vice versa. One important corollary of this view is that...

the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem....

Luria's father remained in the synagogue alone, studying, when the prophet Elijah appeared to him and said, "I have been sent to you by the Almighty to bring...

– January 26, 1968), also spelled Shushani and Shoshani, is the nickname of an otherwise anonymous and enigmatic Jewish teacher. His students – found...

abbreviated as A"K (א"ק, ʾA.Q.), is the first of Four Worlds that came into being after the contraction of God's infinite light. Adam Kadmon is not the...

comprehensive categories of spiritual realms in Kabbalah in a descending chain of existence. The concept of "Worlds" denotes the emanation of creative lifeforce...

Kabbalah: New Perspectives, Moshe Idel, Yale University Press Sidur Tehillat HaShem, Habad Lurianic text, Kehot pub. English translation, p 211 Kabbalah: A Very...

sampler of the world to come, when we sing about Elijah, herald of the messiah, when Havdalah brings Shabbat to a close, when we open the door for Elijah late...

returning to Elijah, the latter enquired, 'What did he say to thee?' — 'peace Upon thee, O son of Levi,' he answered. Thereupon he [Elijah] observed, 'He...

beginning "Elijah opened his discourse [...]" that is read every Friday afternoon to prepare for the Sabbath, in the Habad Siddur "Tehillat HaShem." Schulte...

light of the sun inside the sun itself. In the second section of the Tanya by Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Hasidic Panentheism of the Baal Shem Tov, the...

In Judaism, the concept of Jews as the chosen people (Hebrew: הָעָם הַנִבְחַר hāʿām hanīvḥar) is the belief that the Jewish people, via the Mosaic and...

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (Hebrew: ספר רזיאל המלאך, "the book of Raziel the angel") is a grimoire of Practical Kabbalah from the Middle Ages written primarily...

during the Renaissance due to Christian scholars' interest in the mysticism of Jewish Kabbalah, which they interpreted according to Christian theology. Often...