Wanst upon a time, there was an ould King in Athenroy, that, be all accounts, was the besht ould King that iver set fut upon a throne.
Besht followed the advice, and removed with his wife to a village between the towns of Kuty and Kosovo.
When he encountered men of learning, Besht endeavored to convince them of the correctness of his views by arguments from the Cabala.
Besht preached that the plain man, imbued with naïve faith, and able to pray fervently and whole-heartedly, was dearer and nearer to God than the learned formalist spending his whole life in the study of the Talmud.
The notion spread that Besht was in contact with the prophet Elijah, and that his "teacher" was the Biblical seer Ahijah of Shilo.
As a matter of fact, the personality of Besht as the first Tzaddik impressed the people far more than his doctrine, which could be fully grasped only by his nearest associates and disciples.
The figure of a wandering Baal-Shem was not unusual among the Polish Jews of the time, and Besht chose this career, for it subsequently proved a convenient medium for his religious propaganda.
As far as the common people are concerned, they believed in Besht as a miracle-worker, and loved him as a religious teacher who made no distinction between the educated and the ordinary Jew.
In the North a new Hasidic theory was spreading, which strove to adapt the emotional pietism of Besht to the "intellectualism" of the Lithuanian schoolmen.
Besht was frequently called upon to foretell the future, and, opening at random the Zohar before him, made predictions as suggested by the holy book.
In the spring of the following year, Besht breathed his last, surrounded by his disciples.
About 1740 Beshtchose for his permanent residence the small Podolian town of Medzhibozh.
These sayings have been preserved by his nearest disciples, Besht himself having left nothing in writing.
But the ascetic Hasidim and the epicurean Frankists were alike doomed to disappear or to be swallowed up by a new Hasidism, combining the teachings and aspirations of both, the sect founded by Israel Baal Shem, or Besht (ab.
One province there was to which the Besht could not penetrate, at least not without a long siege and great losses.
The opponents (Mitnaggedim) of Hasidism were headed by a leader who was as typical an exponent of the cause he espoused as the Besht was of his.
As the Besht was noted in his early life for dulness and indifference, so Elijah was remarkable for diligence and versatility.
For, as Doctor Schechter has it, "the Besht was a religious revivalist in the best sense, full of burning faith in his God and his cause; convinced of the value of his teaching and his truth.
Well, my shishter's husband liked me, and gave me the besht garden there is, the old garden Pushpakaranda, to play in and look after.
I'll meet you what time you shay to-night; you had besht take a little time.
Shure I made th' ould woman dresh me up in mee besht clothes thish day, ma'am, so I did.
Manny is the good glass I had wid Barney afore he went into politics an' got shut of his besht frinds, bad luck to 'im.
I'm not as able to get about ash I ushed to was; but I'll try my besht for you.
Now will you do your besht to keep the Cushtos from reaching the capital of the Island?
There'sh the flashk," said he; "it ish the besht brandy in Shamaica.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besht" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
