Sheyiboneh
To the surprise of many, the niggun of "Yehi Ratzon ... Sheyibone Beis Hamikdosh..." was composed by Reb Yisroel Schorr, a chazzan who sang in the shul of the Sadigurer Rebbe, in Austria before. the Holocaust. Although he passed away young, this niggun was very well known and became popular amongst many Chazzonim ... Read more
Ani Ma'amin
The Rebbe of Modzitz, Rabbi Shaul Yedidya Elazar, had Chassidim throughout the major towns and cities of Poland. One of these was Reb Azriel David Fastag, who was noted for his exceptional voice throughout Warsaw ... Read more
Hodi’eini Hashem Kitzi
Reb Dovid Shifrin, once the head secretary of Agudas Chabad of USA and Canada, told over in the name of Reb Avraham Chaim Rosenbaum ... Read more
The Two Fonkehs
There are two Niggunim that start off the same, but ends totally different ... Read more
Hu Elokeinu
This niggun was sung in Lubavitch and afterwards in Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia. The famous Chazzan, the Chassid Reb Yechiel Hacohen Halpern used this melody for the “Kesser” in the Musaf Amidah prayer, when leading the congregation in prayer during the High Holidays, during the time of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Ber Schneersohn ... Read more
Ki Anu Amecha (244)
This melody and its stirring tune stir the soul towards repentance. Teaching this melody, the Rebbe elaborated that he had heard it once from an old Chassid, who hummed this melody to the words of Ki Onu Amecho during the Yom Kippur prayers ... Read more
Stav Ya Pitu
This deeply moving melody, taught by the Rebbe on Simchas Torah of 5723 (1962), is composed primarily of Ukrainian and Russian words interspersed with sentences in Hebrew and Yiddish ... Read more
Anim Zemiros (223)
It happened once in a European shtetl that on the day after Yom Kippur the community arrived to the synagogue for morning prayers, only to find a member of the community dancing around the podium at the center of the synagogue, singing Anim Zemiros with great fervor ... Read more
Atah V’chartanu
This melody is composed of two distinct, yet related, melodies. The full text of the prayer is sung with the first melody and then repeated with the second melody ... Read more
Rachamono
From a concluding prayer in the Selichos service. The opening bars reveal the remorse of the remorseful spirit, while the conclusion voices a strong hope for the acceptance and fulfillment of the worshippers’ petitions to the Almighty ... Read more
Hey Tzomo
In life, we face obstacles that are created by our evil inclination, referred to as “the foolish one.” The lyrics of this song tell us that “the foolish one” comes to the marketplace – our world – only to create strife between us and G‑d ... Read more
Ki Anu Amecha (194)
The Rebbe taught this melody, to the words from the Yom Kippur services, on Simchas Torah 5717 (1956) ... Read more
Asader Lesudasah
The Rebbe taught this song on Shabbos, 14 Tamuz, 5716 (July 6, 1957) ... Read more
Darkecha Elokeinu
The Rebbe taught this melody in 5716, on Simchas Torah, one of the most joyous holidays in the Jewish calendar ... Read more
Vehi She’amdah
For many years, following the second Pesach seder the Rebbe would conduct a farbrengen ... Read more
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