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"Baal Shem Tov"
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"Baal Shem Tov" (Judaism) 
"Master of the Good Name;" Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer (1700-1760); founded in 1736, in Eastern Europe, the Movement known as "Chassidut." In the disastrous wake of Shabtai Tzvi, a false-Messiah who had gained enormous popularity in the Jewish Community before converting to Islam, Chassidut raised the morale of the Jewish People. It showed that the average Jew could be important without being a great scholar, by emphasizing Prayer, Joy and Kabbalah.
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