0016 - Last new Niggunim

00:01 The Seder was that Yom Simchas Torah, the Rebbe would ask to repeat the nigun. So the nigun that the Rebbe taught the night before or early in the morning, the next night by the Fabrengen, by Yom Simchas Torah, the Rebbe would ask to repeat the nigun. Sometimes he would sing the nigun himself over and just ask the nigun. So this time on Toshef Chavdalet, when the Rebbe taught the second nigun, Hu Elokeinu, so Yom Simchas Torah in the beginning of the Fabrengen, so they were singing the nigun without the words. The Rebbe said that you should sing it words the words, with the words. He said that Yechiel the Chazan should sing it in Keser by the Rebbe Rashab, by the Friedik Rebbe. And the main thing are the words, so you should try to sing it with the words. And then the Rebbe asked Rabbi Meshuleh Telushensky to sing the nigun. Now, Rabbi Meshuleh Telushensky already had time to put the words, the nigun into the words that should fit properly into the words. So he sang it without the aye, aye, aye because, uh, he already fitted it in. And then when he finished singing by himself, and the Rebbe made that everyone else should also sing, so everyone was singing, was singing with the aye, aye, aye. So the Rebbe turns around to him and he says, "Farvos zingt ihr nit vi zei zingen? Why don't you sing with the aye, aye, aye?" Which is interesting to note. It seemed, we don't

01:05 know for sure, it seemed that when the Rebbe sang it the night before with the aye, aye, aye, it wasn't planned. It just came out because he tried to fit it into words. That's what it seems k'vayachol in, in, in the Beis Midrash. That's what it seems to us. And nevertheless, because by the Rebbe it came out like that, that is how it's supposed to be, and that's when the Rebbe said to sing it with the aye, aye, aye. And that's from then on, we always sing it with the aye, aye, aye. Now, when the Rebbe himself would daven for the Amud, most times he didn't sing the aye, aye, aye. And the reason is probably because when the Rebbe davened for the Amud and Kedushe Keser was in middle of Chazarat Hashatz, now Chazarat Hashatz is Shemoneh Esreh. So basically, the Rebbe is standing Shemoneh Esreh. In Shemoneh Esreh, you can't say aye, aye, aye. Regular Keser, it's not Shemoneh Esreh. Just we say Keser when the Chazan holds there. But when you're standing Shemoneh Esreh, you probably have to avoid saying this. I'm just saying gesvorah, maybe, and that's why the Rebbe BeChal didn't say the aye, aye, aye. Now, I remember the first time it came out that the Rebbe had yahrzeit on Shabbos after he taught the nigun of Hu Elokeinu. We didn't know what's gonna be because the Seder was not every Shabbos they sing Hu Elokeinu by Keser. Only when the Rebbe would start with the making with his

02:16 hand, which was a siman that you have to sing Hu Elokeinu. And it was only special Shabbosim. Later on, it became already that every Shabbos they sing Hu Elokeinu, but earlier it wasn't every Shabbos. As a matter of fact, it sometimes even was a siman that there'll be a Fabrengen. Certain Shabbosim, we didn't know if there would be a Fabrengen or not. And when the Rebbe made his hand to sing Hu Elokeinu, we knew there would be a Fabrengen. But we knew that when the Rebbe is going to daven for the Amud, he's not gonna make with his hands. Because like I said before, it's Shemoneh Esreh. In Shemoneh Esreh, you can't make any motions. So how will we know if the Rebbe wants that you sing Hu Elokeinu or not? So we taka didn't know. But we decided, a few Bochurim were sitting there, we decided that we're gonna sing anyway. If the Rebbe, even if it doesn't make with his hands, we're gonna sing because we assume it's, uh, the day of the yahrzeit, a special day. Bistame, he wants to sing. So taka, we were standing there. The Rebbe did not make with his hands, but we started singing, and we were standing in front. The people further up in the back couldn't see what the Rebbe was doing. They heard us start singing, so everyone sang. Now, we didn't know. The siman will be if the Rebbe is happy, then he, when he repeats it, he will sing Hu Elokeinu too.

03:19 If he's not happy, he will not repeat it. L'peal d'ramam ish, the Rebbe did repeat it, so we knew that the Rebbe wanted to sing, but he didn't make a... He didn't say it. V'nigeyer l'ki'onu amecha, I wanna say something else. This was a new ki'onu amecha. There was a shailah, what ki'onu amecha should we sing on Yom Kippur? Yom Kippur the year later, this is Toshef Chof Heih. So there was a sha- a question. Should we sing the old ki'onu amecha like they always used to sing all the years since the Rebbe taught that nigun? But now there's a new ki'onu amecha. Maybe he wants us to sing the new ki'onu amecha. So we were watching. So I remember in my eyes, I'm just saying over the way I saw it, I'm pretty sure that the Rebbe wanted the new ki'onu amecha. Because when it came to ki'onu amecha in the Mazorin in davening, the Rebbe made with his hand so strongly, like a circle with his hand, like as if showing ki'onu amecha. It looked like that because the old ki'onu amecha is more slow, and this is also strong. So I saw the Rebbe make with his hand like a big turn, so I assumed it was ki'onu amecha, the new one. But people in the back didn't see, and no one knew, so they started singing the old ki'onu amecha. And, uh, the Rebbe continued making the signs for the old ki'onu amecha, so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that looked like

04:29 he wanted the other one, but they started singing. That's the giblim, and ad hayom hazeh is giblim that when it comes to Yom Kippur, uh, we sing the old ki'onu amecha. Even though it seemed that the Rebbe wanted, but we never know. This is just what I think I saw. Pr- I s- I'm sure b'shas ma'ase I felt that way, but maybe I'm mistaking. But l'peal they sang the old ki'onu amecha. But the truth is that from then on, there was no more nigun. The, the Rebbe didn't sing anymore a new nigun. And when it came Toshef Chof Heih after Hakafas, the night of Simchas Torah, the Rebbe said, after Hakafas, he said, "Azav im yigaret far yorn," like I said last year, that this year there will not be a nigun. And therefore, zol men zingen dem nigun far yorn. And the Rebbe started Hu Elokeinu and walked out, and that's Hakafas finished. And that's since then there was never a new nigun Simchas Torah again.