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Nahman of Bratslav

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Nahman of Bratslav (näkh`mən, brät`släf), 1772–1810, Jewish Hasidic leader, the great-grandson of the Baal-Shem-Tov Baal-Shem-Tov , c.1698–1760, Jewish founder of modern Hasidism, b. Ukraine. His life is the subject of many tales that circulated even before his death.
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. His messianic pretensions put him in conflict with other Hasidic (see Hasidism Hasidism or Chassidism [Heb.,=the pious], Jewish religious movement founded in Poland in the 18th cent. by Baal-Shem-Tov. Its name derives from Hasidim.
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) leaders. Nahman differed from other Hasidim by his consciousness of God's absence from the world, and his concern about sin. He told stories to convey the struggle against evil and for redemption. After his death, his followers did not choose a new leader, but continue to revere him to this day.

Bibliography

See his tales, tr. and ed. by A. Band (1980); biography by A. Green (1979).



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81) Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, quoted in Arthur Green, Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, Jewish Lights Publications, 1992, p.
They are, first, the leading maskil (enlightener) Naftali Hertz Wessely (1725-1805) who lived in the northern trading cities: Hamburg, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Berlin and, second, the Hasidic mystic, Nahman of Bratslav (1772-1810), who spent most of his days, except for a journey to Palestine in 1798-99, in relative small market towns in the Ukraine.
This is the essence of devotional repentance in the thought of the early nineteenth-century Hasidic master Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.
 
 
 
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