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Tidbits from Reb Meilach a"h · Episode 66 · 22 Adar 5786 · 2:02

No, not that song

Episode description

What the Neshama actually enjoys (A Moshol from Rashbatz)

Machine translation into English of the automatic Hebrew transcript.

00:01 Reb Shmuel Levitin was then a mashpia in Tomchei Temimim. His mashpia was the Rashbatz. The Rashbatz was one of the great chassidim in the time of the Rebbe Maharash, and later in the time of the Rebbe Rashab, and was a mashpia in the yeshiva in Lubavitch. He heard from the Rashbatz [unclear] about the power of a niggun. The Rashbatz gave a parable and told a story: Once, a king traveled to a distant country. While he was there, he heard [unclear] musicians playing a niggun that he liked so much that he was captivated by its sweetness. Later, when he returned to his own country, he asked the musicians there to play it. But none of them knew it; they had not written it down, and no one knew the niggun. He sent a great deal of money to have the musicians brought to the city where he was. When he asked them to play the niggun, they asked, “Which niggun does he mean?” He had forgotten. They said, “Nu, what can we do?” After all, he didn’t know which niggun it was. They played him another niggun, perhaps [unclear]. He said that he had forgotten that other niggun. He had forgotten.

01:36 Which niggun he had heard there. But one thing he remembered: this wasn’t the niggun. That much he still remembered. The Rashbatz would say that when the soul descends into this world, it forgets the delight in G-dliness that it once experienced. But one thing it remembers: the pleasures of this world are not the niggun, not that niggun. That much we remember. [unclear]