Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · Apr 25 The Baal Shem Tov, the originator of so much Hasidism, lived for years among non-Jews in Ukraine and very likely studied with Sufi mystics and other people of other traditions and drew from those traditions.
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Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, one of the great Hasidic masters, wrote that a tzadik, a righteous person, "loves both God and every person in the world ... including Gentiles."
How did he find Sufi mystics?