Excerpt from Hasidic Prayer by Louis Jacobs (1972) Reprinted by permission of Schocken Books. Published by Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc. An early hasidic text, speaking of the dialogue of the Baal Shem Tov (d. 1760), the founder of the hasidic movement, with his own soul, remarks: [1] ‘The soul declared to…