Semitic deity of yore

Usage examples of baal.

The string of dots on the heavy parchment sheet crept slowly towards the indentation on the coastline, which was marked on the Dutch chart as Buffels Baal or the Bay of the Buffaloes.

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, Rabbi Isaac Luria, Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Toy, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, Rav Yehuda Brandwein.

The terms Baal and Molech are general terms in the Hebrew scriptures, referring mainly to local gods in the Semitic region, and sometimes to sacred stones.

There is no doubt that, along with the Ari and the Baal Shem Tov, Abulafia is one of the great masters of Kabbalah.

Eleazar, the Baal Shem Tov, or Master of the Holy Name, took the cosmology and practice of the Lurianic Kabbalah and made it accessible to the capacities of ordinary men.

According to the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, only the individual himself can pierce the veil that hides God from man.

Baal Shem Tov hid his wisdom under a mantle of laziness and near idiocy.

May of 1734, the Baal Shem Tov descended from the mountains with his wife and announced to his brother-in-law that the time had come for him to reveal himself to the world.

In 1760 the Baal Shem Tov died, but not before he had brought the Kabbalah down from the angels and placed it securely in the physical hands of men.

Baal Shem Tov taught that to become one with prayer was to become one with God.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door and a messenger informed him that the Baal Shem Tov had something still further to say.

The Maggid suddenly felt the room grow warm and saw it filled with radiant light which only faded when the Baal Shem Tov stopped talking.

The generation of Hasidic masters who followed after the death of the Baal Shem Tov exerted harsh disciplines against distraction in the study hall, even going so far as to extract confessions from their disciples about their most intimate thoughts and to intrude on their marital duties.

The dour and guilty vision that characterized much of early nineteenth-century Hasidism was a far cry from the free and life-asserting proclamations of the Baal Shem Tov and the blissful singing of Levi of Berdichev.

Vivacious, noisy, loving the nectar of flowers and the juices of fruits, Baal Burra was phenomenal in many winsome ways, but in a spirit of rare self denial I refrain from the pleasure of chronicling some of them in order to give place to instance and proof of the reasoning powers of an astonishingly high order.