0172 - The Niggun Kad Yasfun

00:01 In one of the farbrengens of Tishrei Tov Shin Chof Beis, the Rebbe asked one of the guests from Eretz Yisrael, the Rebbe Avrom Lider, who was a baal menagen, a chazen, that he should sing a nigun from Eretz Yisrael. The way you refer to it, you should sing a nigun with zimras ha'aretz. Zimras ha'aretz is a loshon in the posik, but it gives something else. But it's also used when you talk about the nigun that comes from Eretz Yisrael, you could use the loshon zimras ha'aretz. Because the word zimras, even though mechumah should mean something else, but it also has the word zemer. So the Rebbe said to him, you should sing the zimras ha'aretz. So he started singing the nigun, That nigun. And people started helping him. But the Rebbe stopped in the middle and asked him, where is the nigun from? What's the makor of the nigun? I don't remember exact wording, but the Rebbe started questioning about the nigun. And he answered the Rebbe that Eretz Yisrael, by Yaakov, as they sing it in all the shuls. But the Rebbe made with his hands, he wasn't happy, like he didn't accept it. And if I remember correctly, I'm not 100% sure, I think he said that next time when I ask him to sing, he should sing a different nigun. Came to the farbrengen of Chof Tes Tishrei that year, Tov Shin Chof Beis, which was like a tzeis cham nashalom to the orchim. So in the beginning of the farbrengen, the

01:15 Rebbe asked him to sing a nigun from Eretz Yisrael. So then he started singing the nigun, And he sang it once and again. The Rebbe was sitting, fartracht, very serious, and listening to the nigun. And listening to the nigun, and people were singing, and he sang it over again, and listening to the nigun. After he finished the nigun, the Rebbe said to sing a shir samecha, and the Rebbe continued with the farbrengen. Now, many times when the Rebbe would ask him to sing a nigun that he brought from someplace, that would become the nigun that the Rebbe would ask to sing throughout the year, and became one of the nigunim of Lubavitch. Now, we didn't know, it wasn't clear on the Rebbe's face whether he was happy with this nigun or not. He didn't say anything. So we were thinking maybe during the year the Rebbe will ask to sing that nigun again. L'poel mamish, as far as I know, not that year, not any time later did the Rebbe ever ask to sing that nigun again. So, don't know exactly why. Shas mais it wasn't clear that he wasn't happy with it. But l'poel, it seems like it wasn't his kabal, and from then on we're never saying that nigun.