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The great Chasidic masters, from the founder of the Chasidic Movement, the Baal Shem Tov, to the Rebbes of our generation, have shared their insights about life in many ways, but primarily through their comments on the Torah. In The Soul of the Torah: Insights of the Chasidic Masters on the Weekly Torah Portions, Victor Cohen has gathered over 1,000 inspirational teachings and has organized them to follow the order of the verses in the Five Books of Moses. Most of the Torah teachings of the Chasidic Masters were written in Yiddish or Hebrew. The translations found in this book strive to capture the content of thought and the flavor of meaning. Through the many interpretations of the words of Torah by the Rebbes of all generations such as the Baal Shem Tov, the Magid of Mezritch, the Kotzker, the Lubliner, the Sassover, the Rimanover, and the Lubavitcher, we understand how they answered many of our spiritual questions, redirected the negative into the positive, searched for the truth, and showed how to spiritualize the performance of the mitzvot.--BOOK JACKET.