Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "According to Hasidic legend, Adam Baal Shem of Ropczyce (Hebrew: אָדָם בַּעַל שֵׁם מרוֹפְּשִׁיץ) was a rabbi and mystic who first introduced the movement of Hasidism. The leadership of the movement was later handed down from Rabbi Adam to Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov.The exact identity of Rabbi Adam is unknown. Since the name Adam was rare among European Jewry, Gershom Scholem considers it to be a pseudonym for Heshel Zoref (died 1700)."@en }
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- Adam_Baal_Shem comment "According to Hasidic legend, Adam Baal Shem of Ropczyce (Hebrew: אָדָם בַּעַל שֵׁם מרוֹפְּשִׁיץ) was a rabbi and mystic who first introduced the movement of Hasidism. The leadership of the movement was later handed down from Rabbi Adam to Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov.The exact identity of Rabbi Adam is unknown. Since the name Adam was rare among European Jewry, Gershom Scholem considers it to be a pseudonym for Heshel Zoref (died 1700).".