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Shortly before Rosh Hashanah 5569 (late summer 1808), one of Rebbe NachmanÍs followers from the town of Teplik brought the Rebbe an exquisitely hand-crafted chair.
During the Cossack raids against the Jews in the Ukraine in the early 1920s, the chair was dismantled and cut into small pieces. In 1936 it was brought to Jerusalem. In 1959 the chair was restored by craftsmen from the Israel Museum. In 1984 the chair was refinished by Katriel's of Jerusalem and placed on display in the Breslov synagogue in the Meah Shearim section of Jerusalem, where it remains today.
During the Cossak raids, Reb Zvi Aryeh Lippel (d.1981) chopped the chair
into pieces and carried it from Tcherin to Kremenchug (some 20 miles
distance), running nearly the entire time. The chair was deposited with the
Rosenfeld family of Kremechug and brought to Israel in 1936 by Reb Moshe
Ber Rosenfeld (d.1966).
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