עריכת הדף "משתמש:י נעוולער/The Baal Shem Tov" (פסקה)

===Background===
The Baal Shem Tov was born 50 years after the infamous pogroms of the Cossack revolution of 5408-5409/1648-1649 (known as "Tach Ve'Tat"), which decimated many Jewish communities. As a result, the spiritual and physical morale of the Jews was at a low point.i

Rabbi Pinchos of Koritz said that the Baal Shem Tov's soul descended into this world to "awaken" the Jewish communities from their "slumber". i

The Rebbe once said that just as one shouts a person's name into his ear when he faints to awaken him because a person's name is connected to the essence of his soul, so the Baal Shem Tov (Yisroel) was sent into the world to awaken the Jews from their slumber-like state.i