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75) In another essay called "The Meaning of this War (World War II)" [a later version of an earlier essay, written after WWII, is what is quoted here] Heschel cites an oral teaching from the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism: "But all may be guided by the words of the Baal Shem: If a man had beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn how own guilt and repent, for what is shown to him is also within him.