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"The Besht [Baal Shem Tov] said:

If a man accepts everything that happens to him
in this world with love,

then he will have both the physical world and the
higher world of the soul."



Baal Shem Tov [abbreviated as Besht]
in Alan Unterman
_The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics_
NY: New Directions, 1976, p. 48

["Baal Shem Tov means "the Master of the Good Name." It is the appellation of
Rabbi Yisrael (1698-1760). HIs holiness and teaching inspired the Hasidic
movement, although he wrote nothing himself. tjh]

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