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According to [[Hasidic]] legend, '''Rabbi''' '''Adam Baal Shem''' of [[Ropczyce]]<ref name=ld>{{cite book|last=Schneersohn|first=Yosef Yitzchak|author-link=Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn|script-title=he:לקוטי דיבורים|url=http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?sits=1&req=39166&st=%u05D9%u05D5%u05D0%u05DC%20%u05D1%u05E2%u05DC%20%u05E9%u05DD|language=yi|location=Brooklyn, New York|publisher=[[Kehot Publication Society]]|access-date=Nov 26, 2014}}</ref> ({{langx|he|אָדָם נחום בַּעַל שֵׁם מרוֹפְּשִׁיץ}}) was a [[Rabbi]] and [[Jewish mysticism|Mystic]] who lead a group of Hidden [[Tzadikim Nistarim|Tzaddikim]] called Machane Yisroel,<ref>{{Cite web|title=מחנה הנסתרים – חב"דפדיה|url=http://chabadpedia.co.il/index.php/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D#cite_note-1|access-date=2021-07-23|website=chabadpedia.co.il}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=What Does 'Baal Shem Tov' Mean?|url=https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3772388/jewish/What-Does-Baal-Shem-Tov-Mean.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906075000/http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3772388/jewish/What-does-Baal-Shem-Tov-mean.htm |archive-date=2017-09-06 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Discussed in the memoirs of the 6th Lubavitcher rebbe|url=https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=58821&st=&pgnum=5|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727152108/https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=58821&st=&pgnum=5 |archive-date=2021-07-27 }}</ref> started by Rabbi [[Elijah Loans|Eliyahu Baal Shem of Loans]]. The leadership of the movement was later handed down to Rabbi [[Yoel Baal Shem]], who in turn handed it down to Rabbi Adam Baal Shem, who in turn handed it down to Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the [[Baal Shem Tov]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Schneersohn|first=Yosef Y.|author-link=Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn|orig-year=First published 1960|chapter=From Rabbi Adam Baal Shem to Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov|title=Lubavitcher Rabbi's Memoirs|chapter-url=http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=15614&st=&pgnum=14&hilite=|volume=2|others=English Rendition by [[Nissan Mindel]]|edition=Revised|location=Brooklyn, New York|publisher=[[Kehot Publication Society]]|date=2004|page=5|isbn=0-8266-0622-9|access-date=Nov 24, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Writings of R.Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson|url=https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3375986/jewish/Chai-Elul-at-the-Agudas-Chassidei-Chabad-Convention.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720173404/http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3375986/jewish/Chai-Elul-at-the-Agudas-Chassidei-Chabad-Convention.htm |archive-date=2016-07-20 }}</ref>
According to the Chernobyler chassidic tradition, he was the grandfather of Rabbi [[Menachem Nachum Twerski of Chernobyl|Menachem Nochum Twerski of Chernobyl.]]
whose full name was Rabbi Adam nochum Shustak. The exact identity of Rabbi Adam is unknown. Since the name [[Adam (given name)|Adam]] was rare among [[European Jewry]],  According to Rabbi [[Aryeh Kaplan]], others identify this Adam with Rabbi David Moshe Abraham (whose initials are Adam) of [[Troyes]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Mekhilta of Rabbi Adam|url=https://amhasefer.wordpress.com/2019/01/03/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%AA%D7%90-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%A8-%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9D/}}</ref> or with Adam Zerweiker. Kaplan also writes that it may be an anonym to protect the subject's identity.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaplan|author-link=Aryeh Kaplan|year=1982|title=Meditation and Kabbalah|url=https://archive.org/details/meditationkabbal00kapl/page/339|location=York Beach, ME|publisher=[[Samuel Weiser]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/meditationkabbal00kapl/page/339 339]|isbn=0-87728-616-7|lccn=81-70150|access-date=Nov 24, 2014|url-access=registration}}</ref>
According to the ''Shivhei HaBesht'', Rabbi Adam found manuscripts in a cave, containing [[Pardes (Jewish exegesis)|hidden secrets]] of the [[Torah study|Torah]]. Rabbi Adam [[Dream question|asked in a dream]] to whom should he hand down the manuscripts? He was answered to hand them down to Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer of the city of [[Okopy, Ternopil Oblast|Okopy]]. Before his death, he commanded his only son, who was an eminent scholar, to search for the city with that name and hand the manuscripts to Israel ben Eliezer. After Rabbi Adam died, his son traveled until he arrived at Okopy, where he married the daughter of a wealthy man and eventually gave the manuscripts to the [[Baal Shem Tov]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Dov Baer ben Samuel of Linits|author-link=Dov ben Samuel Baer|year=2004|orig-year=First published in English in 1970|title=Shivhei HaBesht|trans-title=In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov|others=Translated and edited by [[Dan Ben-Amos]] and Jerome R. Mintz|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|pages=13–18|isbn=1-56821-147-3}}</ref>
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