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Thousands of Hasidic Jews from around the world are gathering in the Ukrainian city of Uman for a yearly pilgrimage marked by singing, dancing and prayer.
The pilgrims crowding the city's streets are mostly men in black hats or kippas coming to pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nahman -- a revered leader of their traditionalist movement.
On the pilgrimage days for a week around the Jewish New Year, this sleepy, dusty town of 90,000 inhabitants some 200 kilometres (124 miles) south of Kiev is transformed into a multilingual hub of the Hasidic movement.
The celebrations are a way for Hasidic Jews to get back to the roots of their movement in the heart of eastern Europe more than 60 years after the Holocaust.
The stream of pilgrims makes its way down Pushkin street to a large metal structure covering the tomb of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav and two synagogues filled with believers who pray here for hours on end.
Rabbi Nahman, also known as a tzadik or spiritual master, died in Uman in 1810, having urged his followers to gather by his tomb to celebrate Rosh Hashana, or Jewish New Year.
This year up to 25,000 Hasidic Jews, most of them from Israel and the United States, are expected to heed his call and attend the celebrations.
The Hasidic tradition, founded in the 18th century in Belarus and Ukraine, places special emphasis on joyous communion with God. The singing and dancing give Uman a festive air.
With Hasidic music pouring out of CD-players and laptop computers, pilgrims dance in circles and sing all around -- in the streets.

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  • @cbballbreaker1900 all religions are retarded and full of shit.

  • u mean muslums?

  • anyone can convet and be a jew just like any sand nigger can convert to be a muslum

  • just like muslums or fake muslums which is the anitchrist

  • Billions of kafir fake khazar jews, who need to be wiped out.

  • @Rickyrab interesting is true?lol THIS IS A FACT!!!

  • @Rickyrab wrong, stop bullshitting, german jews come from khazar who migrated form hungary, eatsern europe to austria and gemany.

  • @MegaHebrew As I understand it, at least one story of how Jews got to be "chosen" asserted that they were chosen because God had approached other groups of people, only to find them rejecting God's proposals.

  • @Rickyrab lol, keep telling urself that, a real jew is descended from the ancient 12 tribes of israel, khazars and ashkenazis are not, go blow on the cock of Egyptians. Ur fake Exile theory for european and soviet jews and ur entry into the Holy land to reclaim it as ur own, is VOID!!

  • @Rickyrab Some may have Khazar ancestry, which would be interesting if true. Nonetheless, even Khazars aren't fake Jews.

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