ProfBenTziyyon wrote:
GamaH wrote:
you mean to say that the whole thing, even the bit about being a Habbani is made up?

How can he be a חַבָאנִי when his parents were Bretzlov ḥashŭdĭm—which means they must have been of European extraction? The חַבָאנִים are מִזְרַחִיִּים and come from תֵּימָן.
Aren't most Breslav Chasidim nowadays "converts" to that brand of Judaism, much like Chabad Chasidim?