The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1631 page)

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man).
Na
man of Horodenka
.
Jewish
asid
. Na
man was a disciple of
Israel b. Eliezer
(Ba‘al Shem Tov) and the grandfather of
Na
man
of Bratslav. In 1764, Na
man led a group of
asidim to
Israel
and settled in Tiberias.
Nahn
(purification):
see
PURITY
.
Nahum, Book of
.
One of the
Minor Prophets
of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. Nahum seems to have been active in the late 7th cent. BCE, probably just before the final destruction of Nineveh.

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