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Chasidim
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Kiev, Ukraine (JTA) — Follow-
ing a tradition that dates back
to the beginning of the last cen-
tury, some 8,000 Chasidic pil-
grims made their way to the
small Ukrainian town of Uman
to visit the grave of Rabbi Nach-
man of Bratslav at Rosh
Hashanah.
Seeking the fruits of a
deathbed promise their leader
made, members of the Brat-
slaver Chasidic sect from the

Suffering from tuberculosis,
Rabbi Nachman moved to
Uman to be near the mass grave
of the Jews of Uman, who were
forced to choose between con-
version or death during the
Chmielnicki revolt and mas-
sacres of 1648-49.
According to his wishes, when
he died in 1810, Rabbi Nachman
was buried among the 20,000
martyrs of the Haidamak per-
secutions in the 18th century,
which were more limited in
scope than the Chmielnicki mas-
sacres, but even more terrible in
their cruelty.
On his deathbed, he promised
his followers that he would per-
sonally intercede on behalf of
anyone who visited him, saying
that he would lift them out of
hell by their peyos, or earlocks.
Since then, his followers have
returned to Uman every year on
Rosh Hashanah to pray, sing
and dance at his grave. He re-
mains the only leader, or rebbe,
that the Bratslav Chasidim
have ever had.
The pilgrimage to Uman has
become such a central event for
Bratslaver Chasidim that a
small international uproar
broke out in 1993 when then-
Ukrainian President Leonid
Kravchuk agreed to a request
from then-Israeli President
Chaim Herzog to transfer N _ ach-
man's remains to Israel.
Both the Israeli and Ukrain-
ian presidents, who thought
they would be doing the Cha-
sidim a favor, dropped the idea
after they were besieged by
protests from the group, who in-
sisted that the remains stay in
Uman.

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Rabbi Nachman, who was
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Bratsiaver Chasidism, became
famous for his teachings and
mystical interpretations of Jew-
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figures of the burgeoning Cha-
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