In Israel, the NaNach movement, a subset of Bratslav Hasidism, has attracted thousands of followers. The movement was founded in 1962 by Yisroel Dov Odesser, a Bratslav rabbi. Odesser claimed to have discovered a “letter from Heaven” that was sent by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, who’d died more than a century earlier. In the letter, Nachman said that anyone who suffered from a beleaguered heart […]
