Tzavaot Haribash (Testimony of R. Israel Baal Shem Tov and Upright Rules of Conduct)

Originally published in Tzvi M. Rabinowicz (ed.), The encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996), p. 511. First published in Zolkiev in 1793, it is attributed to the Besht. R. Shneur Zalman of Liady writes, “The truth is that this is not his ethical will, and that he made no such will before he departed this life. It…