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'''Breslov''' (also '''Bratslav''', also spelled '''Breslev''') is a branch of [[Hasidic Judaism]] founded by [[Rebbe]] [[Nachman of Breslov]] (1772–1810), a great-grandson of the [[Baal Shem Tov]], founder of Hasidism. Its adherents strive to develop an intense, joyous relationship with [[God in Judaism|God]], and receive guidance toward this goal from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman.
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{{short description|'''Hasidic movement founded by [[Nachman of Breslov]], with no hereditary rebbe, large Israeli following and an annual pilgrimage to Uman'''}}
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{{Infobox religious group
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| name = Breslov
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| native_name = חסידות ברסלב
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| type = [[Hasidic]] movement (non-dynastic)
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| main_classification = [[Hasidism]]
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| theology = Teachings of [[Nachman of Breslov]] (''Likutei Moharan'', ''Sichot HaRan'', tales)
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| structure = No single living rebbe since 1810; multiple independent courts and outreach networks
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| founder = [[Nachman of Breslov]] (1772–1810)
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| founded_date = c. 1802 (residence in Bratslav)
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| founded_place = [[Bratslav]] (Breslov), Ukraine
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| members = About 7,000 committed households (mid-2010s estimate); far larger circle of admirers and pilgrims
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| area = [[Israel]] and occupied Palestinian territory; [[Ukraine]] (Uman); [[United States]]; [[United Kingdom]]; [[France]]
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| language = Yiddish, Hebrew, English, French
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| headquarters = No single seat; historic centres in Uman and Jerusalem ([[Mea Shearim]])
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| website = [https://breslov.org/ breslov.org]
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}}
  
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The movement has had no central, living leader for the past 200 years, as Rebbe Nachman did not designate a successor. As such, they are sometimes referred to as the טויטע חסידים (the "Dead Hasidim"), since they have never had another formal Rebbe since Nachman's death. However, certain groups and communities under the Breslov banner refer to their leaders as "Rebbe".
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'''[[Breslov]]''' (also '''Bratslav''', '''Breslev''') is a branch of [[Hasidic Judaism]] founded by [[Nachman of Breslov]] (1772–1810), a great-grandson of the [[Baal Shem Tov]]. Adherents seek a joyous, personal bond with God through his teachings, especially daily ''hitbodedut'' (solitary spoken prayer) and the annual Rosh Hashanah gathering at his grave in [[Uman]], Ukraine.<ref name="BRIUman">Breslov Research Institute, [https://breslov.org/getting-to-uman/ Getting to Uman] ''Breslov.org'', accessed September 2026.</ref>
  
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The movement weathered strong opposition from virtually all other Hasidic movements in [[Ukraine]] throughout the 19th century, yet, at the same time, experienced growth in numbers of followers from Ukraine, [[History of the Jews in Belarus|Belarus]], [[History of the Jews in Lithuania|Lithuania]], and [[History of the Jews in Poland|Poland]]. By [[World War I]], thousands of Breslov Hasidim were located in those places. After the [[Bolshevik Revolution]], [[Communism|Communist]] crackdowns forced the movement underground in Russia. Thousands of Hasidim were imprisoned or executed during [[Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge]] of the 1930s, and killed by the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. The movement was regenerated in the [[History of the Jews in United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], the [[History of the Jews in the United States|United States]], and [[Israel]], by those who escaped, with large numbers of [[Yemenite Jews]] and other [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahim]] joining the sect.
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[[Nachman]] named no successor. Followers are therefore sometimes called the “dead Hasidim” (טויטע חסידים). Distinct groups still style their own rabbis “rebbe.”<ref name="Otzar">Otzar Breslov, [https://otzarbreslov.com/ A Treasury of Breslov Torah, Stories & Advice] ''Otzar Breslov'', accessed September 2026.</ref> Unlike closed hereditary courts such as [[Satmar]] or [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]], Breslov is a cluster of networks, many built by ''baalei teshuvah'' (returnees), including large numbers of so called [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] and [[Yemenite Jews]].
  
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==Notes==
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[[Marcin Wodziński]] put fully committed Breslov households at about 7,000 in the mid-2010s, while noting that affiliation is looser than in other courts and that admirers and occasional pilgrims far outnumber core Hasidim. Popular Israeli estimates of “100,000 or more” mix committed Hasidim with a wider cultural following.<ref name="Rosenfeld">Shlomi Rosenfeld, [https://www.shlomirosenfeld.co.il/en/kmusa/israeli-breslavers The Breslovers: Joy, Uman, and Hasidism in Israeli Culture] accessed September 2026.</ref>
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== History ==
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[[Nachman]] settled in Bratslav in 1802. His scribe [[Nathan of Breslov|Noson Sternhartz]] (Reb Noson) preserved ''Likutei Moharan'' and organised the first Rosh Hashanah ''kibbutz'' at the Uman grave in 1811 after [[Nachman]]’s death.<ref name="Otzar" /> Other Hasidic courts in Ukraine attacked Breslovers through the nineteenth century.
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By the First World War there were thousands of Breslovers in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. [[Yitzchok Breiter]] spread the teaching in interwar Poland and was murdered at Treblinka. Soviet rule drove the movement underground; [[Michel Dorfman]] later coordinated clandestine Uman visits. Nazis and Stalinist purges destroyed most East European communities.<ref name="BRIUman" /> Survivors rebuilt in the [[United Kingdom]], the [[United States]] and Israel.
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[[Eliyahu Chaim Rosen]] founded a Jerusalem yeshiva in the 1950s. [[Levi Yitzchok Bender]] (1897–1989) headed the Mea Shearim synagogue and drew thousands of returnees. [[Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld]] (1922–1978) planted Breslov in America and began English translation. [[Chaim Kramer]] has directed the [[Breslov Research Institute]] since 1979.<ref name="Otzar" /><ref name="BRIDonate">Breslov Research Institute, [https://breslov.org/donate/ Donate] ''Breslov.org'', accessed September 2026.</ref>
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== Factions and leaders ==
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There is no single hierarchy. Main contemporary clusters include:
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* '''Vaad HaOlami Chasidei Breslov''' – the older Jerusalem/Mea Shearim stream; figures include [[Yaakov Meir Shechter]].
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* '''Tzfat / Koenig line''' – [[Gedaliah Aharon Koenig]] rebuilt a community in [[Safed]]; [[Elazar Mordechai Kenig]] continues it.
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* '''[[Shuvu Banim]] / [[Eliezer Berland]]''' – yeshiva founded 1978 in [[Bnei Brak]], from 1980–82 also in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City (Hebron Road). [[Berland]] drew mass ''teshuvah''; he has faced criminal conviction in Israel and the group has been described as a cult by the Israeli Centre for Cult Victims. A student, [[Shalom Arush]], founded [[Chut Shel Chessed]] in Jerusalem.<ref name="Haaretz2010">Haaretz, [https://www.haaretz.com/2010-12-15/ty-article/upheaval-in-a-breslav-hasidic-court/0000017f-db22-df9c-a17f-ff3a4a7c0000 Upheaval in a Breslav Hasidic Court] ''Haaretz'', 15 December 2010.</ref>
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* '''Na Nach''' – followers of [[Yisroel Ber Odesser]] (c. 1888–1994) and the mantra ''Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman''. Visible street vans and dancing; rejected by much of mainstream Breslov. [[Odesser]] lived for periods in [[Meron]], [[Safed]], Tiberias, [[Beitar Illit]], Mevaseret Zion and Jerusalem neighbourhoods including [[Neve Yaakov]].
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* '''Heichal Hakodesh / [[Eliezer Shlomo Schick]] (Mohorosh)''' – “Breslov City” in [[Yavne'el]] in the Lower Galilee from the mid-1980s; about 400 families by 2015 (around 30 per cent of the town). [[Schick]] also ran halls in Borough Park, Monroe, Monsey and Williamsburg. After his death in 2015 a family court assigned communal assets to his son [[Moshe Schick]]. A 2023 BBC Storyville film alleged systematic abuse in the Yavne'el community.<ref name="JewishNews2023">Jenni Frazer, [https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-doc-that-shocked-israel/ The doc that shocked Israel] ''Jewish News'', 24 May 2023.</ref><ref name="Hidabroot">Hidabroot, [https://www.hidabroot.com/article/17174 Remembering the Tzadik of Yavniel] ''Hidabroot'', January 2026.</ref>
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* '''[[Breslov Research Institute]]''' – translation and publishing house, Jerusalem and Monsey, directed by [[Chaim Kramer]].
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== Uman pilgrimage ==
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[[Nachman]] said his “entire mission is Rosh Hashanah.” The Uman ''kibbutz'' grew from a few dozen visitors in the early 1990s to tens of thousands, overwhelmingly Israeli men.<ref name="YnetWhy">Ynet, [https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/bjpbfv2ygx Why do tens of thousands of Israelis travel to Uman on Rosh Hashanah?] ''Ynet News'', 27 August 2025.</ref> Organisers have spoken of more than 35,000 in peacetime years.<ref name="BRIUman" /> An Israel Democracy Institute survey reported that 8 per cent of adult Jewish Israelis have visited the grave at least once (13 per cent of Mizrahi Jews).<ref name="RISU2026">Religious Information Service of Ukraine, [https://risu.ua/en/8-of-adult-jews-in-israel-have-pilgrimage-experience-at-rabbi-nachmans-tomb-in-uman_n166302 8% of adult Jews in Israel have pilgrimage experience at Rabbi Nachman's gravesite in Uman] ''RISU'', 11 September 2026.</ref>
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Ukraine has refused Israeli requests (including from [[Chaim Herzog]] and [[Tzipi Hotovely]]) to move the remains, calling the grave a cultural asset.<ref name="YnetWhy" /> During the Russia–Ukraine war the pilgrimage continued. In 2025–26 Israeli coverage focused on wartime state funding (reports of 10 million shekels) and on arrests of draft-age Haredi men at Ben Gurion Airport. Arutz Sheva reported about 70 Breslov Hasidim among those jailed as alleged deserters while trying to fly to Uman in September 2026; legal desks were set up at the Ashkenazi Kloiz in Uman for men fearing arrest on return.<ref name="INN2026">Israel National News, [https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433073 70 Breslov Hassidim jailed after attempting to fly to Uman] ''Arutz Sheva'', 11 September 2026.</ref> Parallel Rosh Hashanah gatherings have been held at Adama V’Shamayim farm in [[Yavne'el]].<ref name="YnetGalilee">Ynet, [https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/hkmtaotuzl Breslov Hasidim recreate Uman in Israel] ''Ynet News'', 12 August 2026.</ref>
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== Israel, occupied territory and settlements ==
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Breslov is unusually embedded in Israeli public life for a Haredi stream: street outreach, Mizrahi ''teshuvah'', and the Uman airlift from Ben Gurion. Stance toward Zionism and the [[IDF]] varies by faction. Core Haredi circles generally do not send sons to the army; other Breslov-influenced returnees and “hilltop” youth do serve. [[Shalom Arush]]’s [[Chut Shel Chessed]] / Breslev.co.il has run campaigns of “spiritual iron swords” and prayer with [[IDF]] soldiers.<ref name="BreslevDonate">Breslev.co.il, [https://breslev.co.il/%d7%aa%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%aa/ Donations] accessed September 2026.</ref>
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=== Inside the Green Line ===
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Historic centres: [[Mea Shearim]] and the Old City ([[Shuvu Banim]] on Hebron Road in the Muslim Quarter — a settler-yeshiva footprint inside occupied East Jerusalem); [[Bnei Brak]]; [[Safed]]; [[Meron]] (Rosh Hashanah at the grave of [[Shimon bar Yochai]]); [[Yavne'el]] (“Breslov City”); Ramat Beit Shemesh (Kehillas Chen Hanachal / Breslov shul appeal); Ashdod, Bat Yam, Netivot, Tel Aviv, Beersheba.<ref name="Hidabroot" /><ref name="BuildShul">Kehillas Chen Hanachal, [https://www.buildabreslovshul.com/ Build a Breslov Shul in Israel] Ramat Beit Shemesh Alef, accessed September 2026.</ref>
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=== Occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank ===
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[[Shuvu Banim]]’s Old City campus sits in occupied East Jerusalem. Na Nach activity has included [[Beitar Illit]] and [[Neve Yaakov]]. [[Chaim Kramer]]’s family correspondence from the [[Breslov Research Institute]] has described rockets over [[Beitar Illit]], “the city where I live, south of Jerusalem.”<ref name="BRIBeitar">Breslov Research Institute, [https://breslov.org/in-every-generation-they-rise-up-to-destroy-us/ In Every Generation They Rise Up to Destroy Us] ''Breslov.org'', 15 April 2024.</ref> [[Beitar Illit]] is a large Haredi settlement built from the late 1980s on land taken from Palestinian villages in the Gush Etzion bloc; it is illegal under international law.
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David Biale and colleagues noted Hasidim or “quasi-Hasidim,” especially tied to [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] and Bratslav, on illegal West Bank “hilltop” outposts — mostly Religious-Zionist youth not recognised as Hasidim by mainstream courts. That hilltop Breslov current is politically closer to the settlement movement than to Mea Shearim quietism.
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Published UK and US charity filings name “Israel” (and often Ukraine) as fields of operation. They do not publish a split between activity inside the 1949 Armistice lines, East Jerusalem, [[Beitar Illit]], or outposts.
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== United Kingdom, United States and money flows ==
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The [[Breslov Research Institute]] raises funds as US EIN 11-2524542, Israeli amuta 58-009-223-7, and through the UK [[Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation]] (280174), Binyomin Moss-Barclay, 362 Lower Broughton Road, Salford M7 2HW. Addresses include 8 Avinadav Street, Jerusalem, and POB 587, Monsey, New York.<ref name="BRIDonate" />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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|+ UK charities using the Breslov name that list Israel and/or Ukraine
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! Charity !! Number !! Office !! Stated overseas areas
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| [[Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation]] || 280174 || Salford M7 || Channel for [[Breslov Research Institute]] / Israel
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| [[Breslov Shul Trust]] || 1184303 || 38 Braydon Road, London N16 || Belgium, [[Israel]], Ukraine, United States; objects include relief of poverty in England and Wales, the USA, Israel and Europe<ref name="CCBreslovShul">Charity Commission, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5134891/full-print BRESLOV SHUL TRUST – 1184303] ''Charity Commission for England and Wales'', accessed September 2026.</ref>
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|}
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US donors also fund a Breslov synagogue appeal in Ramat Beit Shemesh via DEJ International Heritage Foundation (Tax ID 51-0541244) and Israeli amuta 58-041-556-9.<ref name="BuildShul" /> Canadian Friends of Chasidei Breslov collect in Ontario for the same network.<ref name="BRIDonate" />
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== Locations ==
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* '''Ukraine:''' Uman (grave and kloiz); Bratslav (grave of [[Nathan of Breslov]]).
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* '''Israel / occupied territory:''' Jerusalem (Mea Shearim; Old City / Muslim Quarter); [[Bnei Brak]]; [[Safed]]; [[Meron]]; [[Yavne'el]]; Ramat Beit Shemesh; [[Beitar Illit]]; [[Neve Yaakov]]; Ashdod; Bat Yam; Netivot; Tel Aviv; Beersheba; hilltop outposts (quasi-Breslov).
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* '''United States:''' Monsey; Borough Park; Williamsburg; Monroe.
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* '''United Kingdom:''' Stamford Hill (Breslov Shul Trust); Salford (280174).
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* '''France:''' substantial ''teshuvah'' following around [[Odesser]] and later rabbis.
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== See also ==
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* [[Nachman of Breslov]]
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* [[Nathan of Breslov]]
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* [[Yisroel Ber Odesser]]
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* [[Eliezer Berland]]
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* [[Shalom Arush]]
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* [[Eliezer Shlomo Schick]]
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* [[Hasidic dynasties]]
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* [[Beitar Illit]]
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* [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]
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* [[Yitzchak Ginsburgh]]
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== External links ==
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* [https://breslov.org/ Breslov Research Institute]
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* [https://breslov.org/donate/ BRI donation pages (US, Israel, UK, Canada)]
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* [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5134891/full-print Breslov Shul Trust (UK 1184303)]
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* [https://breslev.co.il/ Chut Shel Chessed / Breslev.co.il]
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* [https://www.buildabreslovshul.com/ Ramat Beit Shemesh Breslov shul appeal]
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== Resources ==
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* [https://breslov.org/ask-a-breslover-4/ Breslov.org: Ask a Breslover]
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== Notes ==
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<references />
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[[Category:Israel]]
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[[Category:Anti-Zionism]]
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[[Category:Zionist movement]]
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[[Category:Yeshivas in the West Bank]]
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[[Category:Zionism in the United Kingdom]]

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Hasidic movement founded by Nachman of Breslov, with no hereditary rebbe, large Israeli following and an annual pilgrimage to Uman


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Breslov
Founded c. 1802 (residence in Bratslav) Bratslav (Breslov), Ukraine
Founder Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810)
Leader
Headquarters No single seat; historic centres in Uman and Jerusalem (Mea Shearim)
Type Hasidic movement (non-dynastic)
Website

Breslov (also Bratslav, Breslev) is a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Adherents seek a joyous, personal bond with God through his teachings, especially daily hitbodedut (solitary spoken prayer) and the annual Rosh Hashanah gathering at his grave in Uman, Ukraine.[1]

Nachman named no successor. Followers are therefore sometimes called the “dead Hasidim” (טויטע חסידים). Distinct groups still style their own rabbis “rebbe.”[2] Unlike closed hereditary courts such as Satmar or Ger, Breslov is a cluster of networks, many built by baalei teshuvah (returnees), including large numbers of so called Mizrahi and Yemenite Jews.

Marcin Wodziński put fully committed Breslov households at about 7,000 in the mid-2010s, while noting that affiliation is looser than in other courts and that admirers and occasional pilgrims far outnumber core Hasidim. Popular Israeli estimates of “100,000 or more” mix committed Hasidim with a wider cultural following.[3]

History

Nachman settled in Bratslav in 1802. His scribe Noson Sternhartz (Reb Noson) preserved Likutei Moharan and organised the first Rosh Hashanah kibbutz at the Uman grave in 1811 after Nachman’s death.[2] Other Hasidic courts in Ukraine attacked Breslovers through the nineteenth century.

By the First World War there were thousands of Breslovers in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Yitzchok Breiter spread the teaching in interwar Poland and was murdered at Treblinka. Soviet rule drove the movement underground; Michel Dorfman later coordinated clandestine Uman visits. Nazis and Stalinist purges destroyed most East European communities.[1] Survivors rebuilt in the United Kingdom, the United States and Israel.

Eliyahu Chaim Rosen founded a Jerusalem yeshiva in the 1950s. Levi Yitzchok Bender (1897–1989) headed the Mea Shearim synagogue and drew thousands of returnees. Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld (1922–1978) planted Breslov in America and began English translation. Chaim Kramer has directed the Breslov Research Institute since 1979.[2][4]

Factions and leaders

There is no single hierarchy. Main contemporary clusters include:

Uman pilgrimage

Nachman said his “entire mission is Rosh Hashanah.” The Uman kibbutz grew from a few dozen visitors in the early 1990s to tens of thousands, overwhelmingly Israeli men.[8] Organisers have spoken of more than 35,000 in peacetime years.[1] An Israel Democracy Institute survey reported that 8 per cent of adult Jewish Israelis have visited the grave at least once (13 per cent of Mizrahi Jews).[9]

Ukraine has refused Israeli requests (including from Chaim Herzog and Tzipi Hotovely) to move the remains, calling the grave a cultural asset.[8] During the Russia–Ukraine war the pilgrimage continued. In 2025–26 Israeli coverage focused on wartime state funding (reports of 10 million shekels) and on arrests of draft-age Haredi men at Ben Gurion Airport. Arutz Sheva reported about 70 Breslov Hasidim among those jailed as alleged deserters while trying to fly to Uman in September 2026; legal desks were set up at the Ashkenazi Kloiz in Uman for men fearing arrest on return.[10] Parallel Rosh Hashanah gatherings have been held at Adama V’Shamayim farm in Yavne'el.[11]

Israel, occupied territory and settlements

Breslov is unusually embedded in Israeli public life for a Haredi stream: street outreach, Mizrahi teshuvah, and the Uman airlift from Ben Gurion. Stance toward Zionism and the IDF varies by faction. Core Haredi circles generally do not send sons to the army; other Breslov-influenced returnees and “hilltop” youth do serve. Shalom Arush’s Chut Shel Chessed / Breslev.co.il has run campaigns of “spiritual iron swords” and prayer with IDF soldiers.[12]

Inside the Green Line

Historic centres: Mea Shearim and the Old City (Shuvu Banim on Hebron Road in the Muslim Quarter — a settler-yeshiva footprint inside occupied East Jerusalem); Bnei Brak; Safed; Meron (Rosh Hashanah at the grave of Shimon bar Yochai); Yavne'el (“Breslov City”); Ramat Beit Shemesh (Kehillas Chen Hanachal / Breslov shul appeal); Ashdod, Bat Yam, Netivot, Tel Aviv, Beersheba.[7][13]

Occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank

Shuvu Banim’s Old City campus sits in occupied East Jerusalem. Na Nach activity has included Beitar Illit and Neve Yaakov. Chaim Kramer’s family correspondence from the Breslov Research Institute has described rockets over Beitar Illit, “the city where I live, south of Jerusalem.”[14] Beitar Illit is a large Haredi settlement built from the late 1980s on land taken from Palestinian villages in the Gush Etzion bloc; it is illegal under international law.

David Biale and colleagues noted Hasidim or “quasi-Hasidim,” especially tied to Chabad-Lubavitch and Bratslav, on illegal West Bank “hilltop” outposts — mostly Religious-Zionist youth not recognised as Hasidim by mainstream courts. That hilltop Breslov current is politically closer to the settlement movement than to Mea Shearim quietism.

Published UK and US charity filings name “Israel” (and often Ukraine) as fields of operation. They do not publish a split between activity inside the 1949 Armistice lines, East Jerusalem, Beitar Illit, or outposts.

United Kingdom, United States and money flows

The Breslov Research Institute raises funds as US EIN 11-2524542, Israeli amuta 58-009-223-7, and through the UK Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation (280174), Binyomin Moss-Barclay, 362 Lower Broughton Road, Salford M7 2HW. Addresses include 8 Avinadav Street, Jerusalem, and POB 587, Monsey, New York.[4]

UK charities using the Breslov name that list Israel and/or Ukraine
Charity Number Office Stated overseas areas
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation 280174 Salford M7 Channel for Breslov Research Institute / Israel
Breslov Shul Trust 1184303 38 Braydon Road, London N16 Belgium, Israel, Ukraine, United States; objects include relief of poverty in England and Wales, the USA, Israel and Europe[15]

US donors also fund a Breslov synagogue appeal in Ramat Beit Shemesh via DEJ International Heritage Foundation (Tax ID 51-0541244) and Israeli amuta 58-041-556-9.[13] Canadian Friends of Chasidei Breslov collect in Ontario for the same network.[4]

Locations

  • Ukraine: Uman (grave and kloiz); Bratslav (grave of Nathan of Breslov).
  • Israel / occupied territory: Jerusalem (Mea Shearim; Old City / Muslim Quarter); Bnei Brak; Safed; Meron; Yavne'el; Ramat Beit Shemesh; Beitar Illit; Neve Yaakov; Ashdod; Bat Yam; Netivot; Tel Aviv; Beersheba; hilltop outposts (quasi-Breslov).
  • United States: Monsey; Borough Park; Williamsburg; Monroe.
  • United Kingdom: Stamford Hill (Breslov Shul Trust); Salford (280174).
  • France: substantial teshuvah following around Odesser and later rabbis.

See also

External links

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Breslov Research Institute, Getting to Uman Breslov.org, accessed September 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Otzar Breslov, A Treasury of Breslov Torah, Stories & Advice Otzar Breslov, accessed September 2026.
  3. ↑ Shlomi Rosenfeld, The Breslovers: Joy, Uman, and Hasidism in Israeli Culture accessed September 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Breslov Research Institute, Donate Breslov.org, accessed September 2026.
  5. ↑ Haaretz, Upheaval in a Breslav Hasidic Court Haaretz, 15 December 2010.
  6. ↑ Jenni Frazer, The doc that shocked Israel Jewish News, 24 May 2023.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Hidabroot, Remembering the Tzadik of Yavniel Hidabroot, January 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ynet, Why do tens of thousands of Israelis travel to Uman on Rosh Hashanah? Ynet News, 27 August 2025.
  9. ↑ Religious Information Service of Ukraine, 8% of adult Jews in Israel have pilgrimage experience at Rabbi Nachman's gravesite in Uman RISU, 11 September 2026.
  10. ↑ Israel National News, 70 Breslov Hassidim jailed after attempting to fly to Uman Arutz Sheva, 11 September 2026.
  11. ↑ Ynet, Breslov Hasidim recreate Uman in Israel Ynet News, 12 August 2026.
  12. ↑ Breslev.co.il, Donations accessed September 2026.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Kehillas Chen Hanachal, Build a Breslov Shul in Israel Ramat Beit Shemesh Alef, accessed September 2026.
  14. ↑ Breslov Research Institute, In Every Generation They Rise Up to Destroy Us Breslov.org, 15 April 2024.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, BRESLOV SHUL TRUST – 1184303 Charity Commission for England and Wales, accessed September 2026.
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