0562 - The Nigun Nyet Nyet

00:00 Concerning the nigun , I would like to tell over what the Rebbe spoke about concerning this nigun . And from then on, this nigun became a regular nigun that people know. The Rebbe said that when the Friediker Rebbe was in Kostroma, and when he got the idea, notification that he's free, so together with him was Reb Elichaim. And Reb Elichaim also got, got completely . The Friediker Rebbe had to calm him down. But when Reb Mechul Dvorkin was also in Kostroma, then heard about it, he got so excited that he took a little bottle of mashke. Didn't drink from it, but took a bottle of mashke and started dancing around the house where they stayed with this nigun which the of the nigun is is nothing but Hashem. And the Rebbe said that Reb Mechul Dvorkin, a lot of... Was many years amongst non-Yiden, and he got used to using expression and words in Russian. And therefore, the nigun that he's saying which contains the concept of is nothing but Hashem, he said it in Russian. And the nigun is and right after that comes the name of Hashem in Russian, . But since you cannot pronounce Hashem's name, even if it's in another language, therefore he would say whichever means besides him, and it-- we know what it means. And he danced with this bottle of mashke, with this nigun for a long time around the house. And then the Rebbe said, there are people here who know the nigun, and then other people

01:29 will learn from them. And the Rebbe turned around to different people, and he asked them if they know this nigun. And he said, "I myself cannot sing this nigun." He said, "If it were I would have taught this nigun." And he started singing the nigun very quietly under his breath. But the expression that he said that today he cannot sing the nigun, he didn't say why not. See, he didn't say that today it's not the time for me to sing a nigun. It's only Simchas Torah I teach nigunim. But he said, "I cannot sing the nigun." So we understood that the is because it was the year of , after his mother, so therefore the Rebbe felt that he couldn't sing the nigun. But had it been Simchas Torah which he would have sang the nigun, that's what it seemed. But he said, "I can't sing the nigun." And then he asked again, "Not one of the know the nigun?" It's a strange . One of the people started singing the nigun, this nigun. I think it was Reb Handel Lieberman. And the Rebbe said, "This is a different ." It doesn't matter. Let it be this way. The beginning is the same, and the meaning is the same. The tone, the tone is a little bit different. And then he said for-- to smile he said, "You better start singing the nigun because if not, if you're not gonna sing, then I'm gonna start with saying the Hadran." But he started singing the nigun,

02:52 and everyone started following. So they sang the nigun. It was almost like it was later found out exactly the way the nigun was, but it was similar, very similar to that. And that's when the nigun started. And from then on, this became one of the regular famous Chabad nigunim. So obviously, it was a nigun that was known before by some people like Reb Mechul Dvorkin, but it was not known by most people. But from then on, this became one of the nigunim Chabad that's from the common nigunim.