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Yehuda Leib of Shpola (1725-1811) was a Hasidic Rebbe and was known as a popular miracle-worker and faith healer based in Shpola, Ukraine. He was also known as the Shpoler Zeide (Yiddish: "the Grandfather of Shpola"). He studied under the Baal Shem Tov and The Mezrticher Maagid. Yehuda Leib was associated with the third generation of Hasidism in the Ukraine; he is also known as Reb Leib Sara's,[1] although some speculate about this. He was a fierce opponent of Nachman of Breslov, criticizing the new chassidish movement.
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