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Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, (1698--1760), also known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, is seen as the founding figure of Hasidic Judaism. The movement originated in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Ukraine) in the 18th century in an era of persecution for the Jews

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