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The Orphan of Heaven: The Hidden Years of the Baal Shem Tov

The Orphan of Heaven: The Hidden Years of the Baal Shem Tov

Brick Hut Press

Paperback

Series: The Flame That Has No End: The Life and Light of the Baal Shem Tov, Book 1

Religious BiographiesJudaism

ISBN13: 9798951762627
Publisher: Brick Hut Press
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, was the master of the divine name who became the founder of Hasidic Judaism. What inner disciplines of prayer and solitude did a humble lime miner practice in the Carpathian mountains before he revealed his light at age thirty-six?

The hidden years of the Besht begin in the village of Okop, where an aging father named Eliezer leaves his young son with a dying charge to love every Jew. Young Yisrael slips away from his formal studies to seek the Divine Presence in the forests of Podolia, eventually taking a humble position as a cheder assistant who leads children in song. His practice of devekut takes root in the Carpathian mountains, where he prays in solitude and receives secret manuscripts from the hidden master Rabbi Adam Baal Shem. Alongside his devoted wife Chana, he digs lime and operates quietly as a folk healer while studying Kabbalistic texts as a night watchman in Horodenka. The narrative brings the reader to the exact threshold of his public revelation on his thirty-sixth birthday, the eighteenth of Elul, when his long preparation is complete.

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