Polonne (Polnoye, Volhynia)
Eastern Galicia / Ukraine — early Hasidism
Polonne (Polnoye), a town in Volhynia (today in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine), was an early center of the chasidic movement. Rabbi Yaakov Yosef HaKohen of Polnoye, a leading disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, served there; his Toldot Yaakov Yosef (1780) was the first published chasidic book and a principal record of the Baal Shem Tov's teachings.
2 teachers · 7 works · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1760
Ben Porat Yosef
- 1777
Ketonet Pasim
- 1780
Toldot Yaakov Yosef
- 1780
Toldot Yaakov Yosef
- 1781
Ben Porat Yosef
- 1782
Tzofnat Paneach
- 1912
Tzofnat Pa'aneach
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Polonne (Polnoye, Volhynia). Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Tzaddik (The Righteous One)1102 passages
- Torah (Teaching, Torah Study)962 passages
- Malkhut / Shekhinah (Sovereignty, the 10th Sefirah)773 passages
- Mitzvot (Commandments)708 passages
- Yetzer HaRa (Evil Inclination)691 passages
- Teshuvah (Return / Repentance)592 passages
- Avodah (Divine Service)546 passages
- Neshamah (Soul)533 passages
- Tefillah (Prayer)530 passages
- Moach-Lev (Mind-Heart)450 passages
- Machshava (Divine Thought)443 passages
- Devekut (Cleaving to God)442 passages