Who Art Thou

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“Winter in Batowice” (1912)

Henryk Uziembło (Polish;1879 -1949)

oil on canvas, private collection

Double Cottage, Blaise Hamlet north of Bristol, England.

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"And in the fields and forests that surrounded Husatin and other villages, the poetic spirit of Rabbi Nachman awoke. He heard the song of every blade of grass and every bird. Everything spoke to him—blooming, growing and climbing to the heights—about the mercy of God. Rabbi Shimon, son of Reb Ber—the childhood friend and first disciple of Rabbi Nachman—tells that later on, when Rabbi Nachman was famous and living in large towns, he once traveled with Rabbi Shimon in the vicinity of Husatin. He pointed at the fields and forests with great longing, and said, 'How good it was for me here! With every step, I could taste Gan Eden.'"