J.J. and Dr. Rachel Elior make sharp distinctions between mysticism, Hasidism, and Sabbateanism.
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Rachel Elior is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has written nine books on various periods of Jewish mystical creativity, including
The Mystical Origins of Hasidism (Littman, 2006) and
Israel Ba'al Shem Tov and his contemporaries : Kabbalists, Sabbatians, Hasidim and Mitnaggedim (Carmel, 2014).