#1 Der Zebiner Hartz

00:01 The Jebeneh hartz, nigun samech gimmel on Sefer HaNigunim, a hartzike nigun from the city of Zhembin. I once heard in one of Reb Mendel Futterfas's, uh, recorded farbrengens from Rosh Chodesh Kislev, that when he was a bachur, he got to know a older Chassid, that when this older Chassid was young, he was a bachur in Tomchei Temimim, uh, when Tomchei Temimim started in the city of, uh, Zhembin. He was sent there, Reb Shmuel Greenhut, to learn in Zhembin. And he told Reb Mendel, "I'll tell you, let me tell you what the story behind the Jebeneh hartz is." He says, "Reb Shmuel Greenhut was very into haskala." As, uh, the Rebbe Rashab writes in one of the kuntresim, I forgot which one, a Rebbe Chassid, a maskil, Reb Shmuel Greenhut, a master man. He educated his talmidim to go in the way of haskala, a lot of haskala in Chassidus. So the Jebeneh hartz is like this, a maskil, until he comes to a feeling in the heart, takes a very long time. But when he does eventually get there... That's when the recording of Reb Mendel's farbrengen gets a little blurry, and you can't really hear what he says, but something to the extent of a feeling in the heart of a maskil, when he does get there, is something gor andruch. That's the Jebeneh hartz. We will play this nigun the way it's on the Nechech record, Nechech record number six, the one that was recorded in Eretz Yisrael, led by Reb Zalman Bronstein,

01:39 alav ha-shalom, from Kfar Chabad. And then we'll also play the way Reb Zalman Bronstein sings this nigun on the words, "Emes ki atu hu yotzerem," that we say on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur right after Unetaneh Tokef.