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Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov

By Burt Jacobson, Susannah Heschel (Foreword by)
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By Burt Jacobson, Susannah Heschel (Foreword by)
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2025 Nautilus Award Winner | Silver | Religion

A rabbi’s lifelong journey to discover the source and inspiration of Hasidism.

As a student of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s at Jewish Theological Seminary sixty years ago, Burt Jacobson was moved to devote his life to the study of Israel Baal Shem Tov—the founder of Hasidism. Heschel considered the Baal Shem the greatest Jewish teacher and communal leader of the last 1,000 years. Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov is a wi...

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