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The younger Chazan was a deeply devout young man who often left home right after the Jewish Sabbath to meditate and study in the forest for the entire week, subsisting only on a sack of bread. Few of his scholarly works survive; the most well-known is ''Biyur HaLikutim'', an incisive commentary on Rebbe Nachman's two-part collection of teachings, ''Likutey Moharan''. Only part of this work was published in Chazan's lifetime; the first complete edition was published in 1935 by Reb Shmuel Horowitz and an amended and annotated edition was issued in 1989 by Reb Mordechai Frank. Notwithstanding his profound grasp of Rebbe Nachman's teachings, Chazan said about the Rebbe's simple conversations: "I hope that 10,000 years after the Resurrection, I will be worthy of understanding even one of Rebbe Nachman's statements the way the Rebbe himself understood it in this world!" After his father passed away in 1884 , Chazan began to write down all the stories and Breslover traditions that he had heard from him. These historical anecdotes, along with stories about many of Rebbe Nachman's followers, formed the basis for his books, ''Kochavei Or'' (five volumes) and ''Sichot V'Sippurim''. Chazan emigrated to Jerusalem , Israel around 1894 . However, he returned to Uman each year for the annual Breslover Rosh Hashana Kibbutz (prayer gathering). In 1914 , the outbreak of World War I forced him to remain in Russia , where he lived and taught until his passing in 1917 . His students in Uman, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Bender and Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Rosen , became the leaders of the next generation of Breslover Hasidim after they emigrated from Uman to Jerusalem. REFERENCES
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