Israel – The Israel Post company has issued a new stamp marking 200 years since the death of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, whose philosophy of uniting faith and joy is practiced by tens of thousands of Jews worldwide.
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Among his sayings are, “It is in our interest to see everything as being for the best,” “It is a great mitzvah to always be happy” and “There is no despair at all in the world.”
His teachings of expressing happiness as a matter of faith helped Jews cope with difficulties during a period when many were downtrodden and poor. Rav Nachman, as he is known to his followers, expressed a special love for the Land of Israel and the Jewish People, whom he encouraged to discover the “song of life.”
He died at the age of 39 in 1810. The new stamp is based on a painting by Breslov Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak Bezanson, who recreated a 1922 photograph of Breslov Hassidim at the grave of Rav Nachman.
His followers have gathered at Rav Nachman’s grave in Uman, Ukraine every year, except for the years when the custom was interrupted during the Communist regime.
More than 20,000 pilgrims visit the site every year and also celebrate the Rosh HaShanah New Year holiday in Uman. Rav Nachman promised, “My light will burn until the coming of the Messiah.”
The old Breslov synagogue in Uman appears to the right of the stamp in the background of the painting. The Communist regime confiscated the property and used it as a factory, and Breslov followers so far have failed to redeem the structure and restore it as a place of worship.
Doesn’t look right without the Na Nach written on it
Gevalt, another chilul hashem of the name of the rebbe…………
This is No Honor to the graet Tzadik R’ Nachman
this is great news…now all can be come acqainted with the NAW NAW NACHMAN cheeduush…..yais mehadrin yais.
I never knew that Israel also became part of Na Nach Nachm Nachman MeUman
Rav Nachman ZTZAL is the Rafuah to the machlokes in Eretz Yisrael.
Love all Yidden !!!
Am Yisrael Chai !!! Amen !
Breslov is NOT NaNach! The NaNach fringe associate themselves with Breslov, but they should not be confused with the large Breslov community worldwide who does not accept their nonsense.
Personally, I think it’s past time for the Breslov leadership to strongly condemn NaNach.
How can it be that the terrible Zionists are issuing a stamp honoring a Gadol. Hey, maybe they’re not as terrible as some of the fools who blog on this website are.
Stamps is a good idea. If you can’t lick ’em, learn ’em.
Israel putting a rabbi on a stamp isn’t very newsworthy. If the US puts a rabbi on a stamp, then I would be much more impressed. Even more impressive than that though would be if Egypt issues a Rambam stamp. He was after all, the person physician of Saladin, the Egyptian leader.
There has already been a rabbi on a US postage stamp.
I found this at jewishstamps.com
“Bernard (Dov) Revel (September 17, 1885-1940) was an Orthodox rabbi and scholar. He served as the first President of Yeshiva College from 1915 until his death in 1940. The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University is named for him.
In 1986, he appeared on a $1 U.S. Postage stamp, as part of the Great Americans Series.”
Thank you. The whole chasidus breslev is an excuse for corrupt power gains. It’s not possible to harness such power, and call one’s self an official leader of R. Nachman’s derech (way). Those so called breslev leaders or chassidim or whatever, have only the name in common with R. Nachman. The books are considered the only way to get to know R. Nachman. And.. Hey wait! The main thing those Na Nachers do is print and distribute those books at cost of printing. Wow. Imagine that
Everyone already knows that nanachs don’t do drugs, and they only put graffiti on property that is already messed up, but you should be quite ashamed of yourself for saying such ugly things and accusations on those Jews that do such nice kiruv with their vans. Shame on you. How could you say such nasty stuff about them then on top of it you say R. Nahcman would not be happy that they are doing kiruv in his name, in accordance with his last will and testimate. Please repent from being such a rasha. I guarantee you your machlokes is not “machlokes between tzadikim ” but evil machlokes based on the evil inclination. Only big tzadikim can do good for the world making machlokes. But the way you speak, it’s obvious that you make unworthy machlokes and all that does is increase suffering in the world. Don’t be a bum.
The respectable “breslev” community has already condemned Na Nach! See a file on YouTube.com entitled “simply pedophilia tzfat” to hear about the “breslov gedolim” that have come out against Na Nach. Pedophilia is refering to the “mainstream breslev” community”. The ones that love talking about how Na Nach kiruv project does not really represent R. Nachman
for all the years the breslov sect were a bunch of crazy people.
Oh right. That’s like the chasidim. It is said the Baal Shem Tov was seen crying and said ” I see that in the future there will be Jews that will claim to be going in my derech, but they are not doing so at all”. This is like the breslev leaders. They want to control people even though the Rabbi, and his grandfather the Baal Shem wanted to make everyone into great tzadikim. Not followers of some beinonee. How would it look if someone claimed to be a Rochel Imainu leader. Or a Rashbi leader.
Rabbi nachman said that although the “mabil” (great flood) wasent in EY. before the arrival of Moshiach a “mabil shel kefira” will flood erez yisroel,
It’s time the world should know the source of “na nach.” the so-called “petek” that Odesser found in his Likutei Moharan was written about 80 years ago by Rabbi Yoel Ashkenazi of Tveria, in order to make Odesser feel good after being harressed by slonimer chasidim. He sent the “petek” to Poland and the Breslover chasidim who all said it was nonsense. Odesser hid it until he was over 90 years old and was halfway senile and in an old age home, when a few French balei tshuva found him and he revealed them the “petek”, and the rest is history.
The “na nach” hippies have nothing with Breslov, and it’s painfull to see that there are still people out there who confuse them as Breslov. A real Breslover Chasid learns and davens
He is obviously saying you were acting like a rosha and you should stop, not because you dissagree, but because you speak terrible lashon hara and rechilus ( false accusations of corruption) about innocent people. Did you really think he said that because you dissagree with him?
If he was in the dor of the petek of Baruch Sheamar, or some other letter from Heaven, he wouldve also been a disbeleiver then. R”L!
true i got you allexcited to seea file on youtube.com entitled simply pedophilia tzfat, but i dont find it any more. got removed somehow. it was in the hebrew language, so maybe it can still be found by searching in hebrew. ayyy the 3weeks. be safe, all!
Chain of rabbonim in breslev. You mean the city of breslev. Noone, however, claimed to be a fitting leader of R. Nachmans followers until the past few years. After all R. Nachman said “I know for certain that I am the only one that is fitting to lead the Jews until kingdom come”
R. Mottel of Slonim was a close friend of the young “Saba”, Rav Odesser. According to the testimony of Rav Yisroel Ber Odesser,When Yisroel Ber showed the petek to Rav Mottel, that fateful day, the 22nd of Tammuz in 1922, Rav Mottel laughed so hard, he almost died. He was known to never laugh. He told young Saba that he would prove the letter was fake (even though it’s in Rav Nachman’s holy handwriting, but there wasn’t such easy access to graphology at that point, so on with the maaseh). So Rav Mottel interviewed everyone from the community, thus verifying that his original idea was wrong. If so, said Rav Mottel, Yisroel Ber has recieved a letter from heaven, and I, Rav Mottel, retract my previous opposition to Rav Nachman and his derech. Saba tells that afterward, Rav Mottel tried to change the ways of other karliners, but even though everyone had high regard for Rav Mottel, they rejected his new ideas. After all, most “chasidim” had been against Rav Nachman for a hundred years. It was tradition. And you don’t break tradition! Feel bad for you dude.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman has put his stamp on the whole world!
You claim to be a Torah Jew? How could a Torah Jew say bad things about a whole group of Jews? And furthermore, just because you think that they don’t lean and daven, so it’s a given that they all do drugs! Well Rabbi Nachman said that for all the chasidim that opposed him, they were surely picturing some person that eats on fast days (that’s what they were saying about him at first, but we see that even NaNachers take that stuff seriously, because Saba’s whole downfall into depression, the one that led to the arrival ofthe letter from heaven, came because he broke the fast of 17th of Tammuz ) R. Nachman said if he really were like that, then it would be fitting to oppose him strongly. To say he isn’t really a worth leader of the Jews.
You claim to be a Torah Jew? How could a Torah Jew say bad things about a whole group of Jews? And furthermore, just because you think that they don’t lean and daven, so it’s a given that they all do drugs! Well Rabbi Nachman said that for all the chasidim that opposed him, they were surely picturing some person that eats on fast days (that’s what they were saying about him at first, but we see that even NaNachers take that stuff seriously, because Saba’s whole downfall into depression, the one that led to the arrival ofthe letter from heaven, came because he broke the fast of 17th of Tammuz ) R. Nachman said if he really were like that, then it would be fitting to oppose him strongly. To say he isn’t really a worth leader of the Jews.
Ja Jaah, everybodys wisdom knows all. The Besserwisser-Kleinbuerger-Klugscheisser seins countless, prawda? I’m a goj and ja praktykowac Hitbodidut.
It works.
Sooo, visit UMAN on Rosch Haschana!
It’s a great experience.
Be peacable to everybody, also to the Klugscheisser, Arabs and so on.
Shalom Michael