Creator Bio
Avraham Kahana
1874–1946
Born in Skomorochy, near Zhitomir, in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Avraham Kahana was a self-educated historian and biblical scholar. He worked as an editor on critical editions of the Bible, including apocrypha and pseudepigraphal books from Greek manuscripts. He immigrated in 1923 to Palestine, where he directed the Shaar Zion Library (today Beit Ariela Shaar Zion) in Tel Aviv and taught at the Levinsky Teachers’ Seminary.
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Rebbe Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov
The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…