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Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (or Breslov) was the great-grandson of the Ba‘al Shem Tov. As a young man, Nachman felt drawn to commune with God and reveled in the outdoors; his religious identity and antipathy toward other Hasidic leaders strengthened after his visit to the Land of Israel in 1798–1799. In 1802, he moved to Bratslav in Ukraine and attracted followers to a new, introspective form of Hasidism. He later settled in the town of Uman, leaving no successor after his death to lead Bratslav Hasidism. Rabbi Nathan Sternhartz, his disciple and amanuensis, published Nachman’s teachings. Nachman’s most significant writings are his Sipure ma’asiyot, fantasy tales with kabbalistic and folkloristic elements; and his Likute MoHaRaN, an anthology of his homiletic teachings.