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Article: Rebbe Nachman's fantastical fables.(BOOK CLUB)
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- January 1, 2009
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This year, Moment's book club selections are based on the favorite Jewish books of Nobel laureates, as featured in Moment's November/December 2008 issue. Our first book is The Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Elie Wiesel has called Rabbi Nachman "one of the greatest Hasidic storytellers we have in Jewish literature."
Born in 1772, Rabbi Nachman was the great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement. Nachman was the rebbe of the Breslover Hasidim and was known as a great spiritual leader, a mystic and a tzaddik. To this day, the Breslovers have never named another rebbe and continue to follow his teachings.
Nachman's stories ...