0015 - Last New Niggunim

00:01 תשכ"ד was the last year that the Rebbe taught the new nigun. And this is how it happened. We know that the Rebbe would teach the nigun on Simchas Torah morning after he finished his Sudas Yontev in the apartment of the Friedig Rebbe, which came after Hakofes, which came after the Fabregen. And really, when the Rebbe taught the new nigun, he didn't come down again after the meal to teach the new nigun Be'etzem. He came down to give out Mashke, distribute Mashke to people who accepted upon themselves a Hisofa in Limud HaChiddes. A Hisofa, an addition that this year they're gonna learn more Chiddes. And while the Rebbe was distributing the Mashke, he would also teach a new nigun at the time. So תשכ"ד, when the Rebbe came down after the meal upstairs, which was early, early, very late in the night, early, early morning already, and the Rebbe came down, and he looked around, and he saw the line that formed to g- to get the Mashke. So the Rebbe said that the whole idea of getting this, giving out the Mashke is only for those who take a Hisofa on learning Chiddes. So therefore, and he saw that in the line, there were also children. So he said, "I see that there are people here that were not accepting the Hisofa. There are children there too. So I'm announcing again that I'm saying that this is only for those who kept their promise from last year and accept upon themselves to have a Hisofa

01:18 this year, but not for other people." And the Rebbe said, unfortunately, it became like, like Koshel. He didn't say the word, I don't think he said the word Koshel Broche, but it became that this is like distributing Mashke to everybody. And you saw that the Rebbe was upset for what happened. And the Rebbe started giving out the Mashke, and the line was moving. And during the giving of the Mashke, the Rebbe taught the new nigun. The new nigun was Ki Oneu Amech. Years earlier, he taught another Ki Oneu Amech, but now he taught the second Ki Oneu Amech. And he said that even though we already taught a nigun of Ki Oneu Amech, but this is another nigun. And he explained that the other one was connected to Avodas HaTzadikim, but this one is connected to Avodas HaBaal Teshuva. And he said that's why the nigun is an, uh, nigun that shows Achshonas, shows, like, stubbornness. Because when you sing the nigun, Ki Oneu Amech, it shows stubbornness. It's a nigun of a Baal Teshuva. And the Rebbe asked, I don't remember who, Rabbi Yael or, uh, Rabbi Moshe Tereshevsky, to say or sing over the nigun like he always did. And he was continuing to give, to give out the Mashke. But he looked around, and he saw that nothing changed. There were still children in the line, and no one basically did anything, and he expected someone to do something. So the Rebbe said, "Didn't we make up that only people who take

02:34 a Hisofa on Chiddes should stand in line, should accept Mashke? And I see it's not like that." So therefore, the Rebbe said, "I am stopping in 15 minutes." He looked at the clock, and the clock was a quarter to, and I don't remember if it was a quarter to six or a quarter to seven. And the Rebbe said, "In 15 minutes, I'm going to stop." And then the Rebbe added, "Un yetz vet me zen vos vet zayn midi vos varten alemol bizin sof." Now we'll see. You know, he said a loshen, "Yetz vet me zen vegen vos vet zayn midi ale chachomim vos varten biz alemol bizin sof." What will be those smart alecks that always wait till the end? Which means at Koshel Broche, there were people that waited till the end, and then they would run over to the Rebbe. Looks like the Rebbe was annoyed. So he said these words, "Un yetz vet me zen vos vet zayn midi chachomim vos varten alemol bizin sof." And the Rebbe take stopped in 15 minutes when it became, I don't remember, six or seven o'clock, the Rebbe stopped, and he didn't give any more Mashke. Even though there was a long line, the Rebbe stopped, and he didn't give any more. But the Rebbe said that next year, whether there is going to be a new nigun is hen od alav, maybe yes, maybe not, he doesn't know. Because of that, he's gonna teach another nigun this year, and he's gonna teach a march

03:43 which Yechiel the Chazan used to sing by the Rebbe Rashab in Rostov, and he would put it to the words, "Chul Keinu in Kesser." And the Rebbe started teaching the nigun, nigun Chul Keinu, which was a nigun that many people knew, but the Rebbe started putting it into the words of Chul Keinu in Kesser. And the Rebbe in middle said, like, stopped, and he said, "I don't remember it by heart." He took the Siddur, and he opened up the Siddur and tried to put the nigun into the words of Kesser. And while he's trying to put it in, in order to fit to the words, that's where the ay, ay, ay came. So he said, he sang it with the ay, ay, ay because he tried to put it in the words. And everyone, the Rebbe asked to sing over, and everyone sang. But the Rebbe didn't continue giving any more Mashke. And when he finished, I think the Rebbe said, "It's time to go get ready for davening," and the Rebbe left. This is this part, and the next day, tomorrow, I will say the rest of the story, what continued afterwards.