Baalshem

Baalshem
/bahl shem"/, n.
a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, esp. one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th-19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
Also, Balshem.
[ < Heb ba'al shem lit., master of the name]

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