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God wants the heart — serve in joy.
The revival movement of the Baal Shem Tov: divinity saturating the ordinary, joy outranking scholarly rank, and the rebbe's court — table, melody, and tale — as the school of the soul. Born in eighteenth-century Podolia; now the most visible face of traditionalist Judaism.
The founding
An itinerant healer and amulet-writer taught that a sincere melody from an unlettered Jew can outweigh cold brilliance — and the courts of the rebbes grew from his table.
Its founding is bound to The Baal Shem Tov — 1740 CE.
What it holds
Reality. No place is empty of Him — divinity saturates the ordinary.
The divine. One God.
Death and after. The world to come.