Noda Biyehuda
On 11 Nissan 5735, the Rebbe's 75th birthday, Chassidim took the words Noda Biyhuda from the Rebbe's kapitul, and put it to a lively tune ... Read More
Korati Bris
The song Korati Bris was composed by Reb Sholom Brochshtat in 5750 (1990), in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's 88th birthday. The song is based on the chirping of birds, which Brochshtat heard outside. The lyrics of the song are taken from the chapter in Tehilim (Psalms) that the Rebbe was reciting that year ... Read More
Vayhi Bimei Achashveirosh
The Niggun "Vayehi Biymei Achashveirosh" is a Niggun on the first Possuk of the Megillah. The Niggun in its original form is a cheerful tune without words. Some say that the words were added to the Niggun after a Bochur came down from the small Zal to the Shalash after drinking Mashkeh while he was matching the words of the Megillah to the Niggun ... Read More
Tenuah
A tenuah composed by renowned chossid and composer Reb Shalom Charitonov, and sung by his son Reb Shamshon Charitonov, was discovered almost by mistake this past week, 50 years after it was recorded ... Read More
Chi Cha Cha
This Russian Niggun is as if making fun of the daily schedule of a Chossid. When Rabbi Berel Zaltzman sang this at Kos Shel Brocha, the Rebbe expressed his pleasure from it. Kos shol Bracha finished at 4:00 AM and everyone stood outside the 770 waiting expectantly for the Rebbe to walk out towards the car ... Read more
Ho'aderes Veha'emua
This niggun is from the city of Nevel. The chosid Reb Shlomo Der Geller (the Melamed of Nevel) used to sing is a lot ... Read More
Eilu Voeilu Omrim
The Gemara in Maseches Sukkah describes the unbounded joy of Simchas Beis Hasho'eivoh celebrated in the Beis Hamikdosh (Holy Temple) from the Second night of Sukkos until the end of Chol Hamoed (the Intermediate Days). "He who has not witnessed the joy of Beis Hasho'eivoh has never seen joy in his lifetime." The Gemara adds that, in their greatest ecstasy, the "Chassidim and men of good Deeds" never overlooked the pressing need of repentance. Dancing together fervently they would sing out ... Read more
Nye Chadi
This niggun in Russian, is a conversation between a father and his son. The son wants to go to the Rebbe in Lubavitch, but the father, being a Misnaged, does not want him to go. The father tries to bribe him with a new hat, new boots. But the son rejects the presents saying that he still wants to go to Lubavitch. The father tries to threaten him with a beating, but the son is not fazed ... Read more
Vesomachto
This lively tune of three stanzas is sung by Chassidim during the holidays, particularly on the holiday of Sukkus and Simchas Torah. The melody is very old, but only the last two stanzas were known. The first has been restored by recourse to the tradition preserved by the elder disciples from Kfar Chabad, Israel ... Read more
Kremenchuker Berellach
This melody of four stanzas is attributed to the famous disciples of a small town in Ukraine, Kremenchug, called "Der Kremenchuker Berellach" - The Kremenchug Bears, as they were all known by their same first name of Dov-Ber (which translates "bear") ... Read more
Ki V'simcha
This joyous two-part melody is customarily sung at the conclusion of every Farbrengen (Chassidic gathering) as the Rebbe leaves the hall, surrounded by dancing Chassidim, who escort him to his study ... Read more
Mi Armia Admura
On a summer day in 5735 (1975), Reb Bentche Shemtov was walking across the street at the entrance to Kfar Chabad when, in a terrible accident, he was struck by a passing truck. Several days later, on 5 Tammuz, he returned his soul to his maker ... Read more
Der Lamnatze'ach
This niggun is originally from a longer Modzitzer Niggun. They say that one of the Modzitzer Rabbeim needed an operation, and the Modzitzer Rebbe didn't want to be put to sleep, so he sang this niggun while the doctors were operating on him ... Read more
A Sample
At a Farbrengen in the summer of 1961, the Rebbe said to Reb Shmuel Zalmenov: "It's customary here (in America) before you sell something, to give a sample, give a sample." "Announce that it's a sample and it costs such and such, give now a sample." ... Read more
Composing
Reb Yeshaya Garelik relates: "Among the Chassidic families that lived in Nikolayev, I remember the Althaus family, the brothers Reb Eliyahu Chaim and Reb Binyomin, Pinye (Pinchas) the son of Reb Eliyahu Chaim, and Pinye, Menashe and Shmuel Bezalel, the sons of Binyomin. Also, the brothers, the musicians, Reb Ahron and Reb Sholom Charitonov, who composed many of the Chabad niggunim ... Read more
Niggunim Saves Lives
This was told over by a woman named Malka. In one of my meetings with the Rebbe [by the steps in front of 770] I happened to have been very ill [at that time I was suffering from severe migraine and sinus headaches as well as painful earaches. I was sometimes in such extreme pain, that on those days I couldn’t function at all] ... Read more
Niggun Hahishtatchus
Introduction: In a Sicha of the Frierdiker Rebbe it is explained, there are three levels in niggunim; 1) Niggun from the Rebbe which he himself composed or that he was wont to sing (i.e. "attributed" to him). 2) From Chassidim which contains "toichen" i.e. a hisorirus to T'shuvah. 3) A niggun "shoitah" which has no toichen and says nothing ... Read more
Volt Ich Hoben
Reb Menachem Mendel of Horodok, author of “Pri Ha’aretz”, was a chossid of the Ba'al Shem Tov and later was among the first and most devoted Chassidim of the Maggid (The Maggid sent him to Vitebsk for the purpose of spreading chassidus and, while there, he was the one who advised the Alter Rebbe to travel to the Maggid in Mezeritch) ... Read more
Anim Zemiros (224)
The Lubavitcher niggun for Adon Olam is well known, but the origin is not. It's originally a Nikolayever niggun with the words Anim Zemiros (224). Reb Zalman Levin Head this niggun in nevel. When Reb Zalman was a Melamed in Cheder, he needed a niggun for Adon Olam, so he put to this niggun ... Read more
Reb Yehuda Eber
The Chossid Reb Yehuda Eber (5661-5702) learned in Lubavitch during his youth and later on became the Rosh Yeshiva in Otvotzk, and in Warsaw. His Chiddushei Torah, which were published by his students after world war two, are known throughout the Torah world by the title it was given - Sharrei Yehuda. Aside from being a great Gaon, he was also greatly talented in other areas. Yet his talent in song was unbeknown to his students until the Frierdiker Rebbe himself told them of it, as told over by Reb Moshe Rubin .... Read more
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