OCTOBER 3/TISHREI 18

5572 (1811):

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Nachman, one of the most original thinkers to have emerged from the Chasidic world, founder of the Breslov Chasidim, great grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, philosopher, author of The Thirteen Tales and Likkutei Moharan. Every year on Rosh Hashana, tens of thousands of Jews travel to Uman (Ukraine) to pray at his gravesite.

"All the world is a narrow bridge -- but the main thing is not to be afraid" (now a popular Hebrew song, Kol Ha-Olam Kulo).