Eliyahu Baal Shem of Worms
For the Ba'al Shem of Chelm (1550- ), see Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm. For Rabbi Elijah Loans (born at Frankfurt-am-Main, 1555; died at Worms, 1636), see Elijah Loans.
Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem of Worms (ca. 1532- ) was born in Krakow as the son of the scholar Yosef Jospa, a Spanish Jew. He was one of the few rabbis to be given the Baal Shem title.
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