“From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.”

About Baal Shem Tov (Israel ben Eliezer)

Spiritual Leader • Polish

Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov, was a Jewish mystic and spiritual leader from Poland who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism. Born to poor parents in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he...