#2 Hatzileini Noh

00:01 Nigun Hatzileini Na is a old Chassidishe nigun dated all the way back to the times of the Mizrachi Maggid. The words of the nigun are, "Hatzileini na miyadochi miyad Esav, ki yareh oneichi Esav pen yovei vehikani ey malboni," which is the tefillah of Yaakov Avinu before meeting up with Esav on his way back from Charan. The nigun starts with a t'nua of tefilla and bakasha, and ends with a tone of simcha and bitachon that Hashem will surely be on our side. The nigun was sang traditionally in Chassidus Karlin, Slonim, and Lubavitch. In Karlin, it was typically sang in the week of Shabboson, which was the beginning of the season when the children were kidnapped to serve in the Russian army, famous as the gezeirah, as the decree of the Cantonisten, and this nigun was a tefillah about the children being kidnapped. In Slonim, this nigun is sang on Yom Kippur before Neilah. In Lubavitch, it is sang at Chassidishe farbrengens as a tefillah to Hashem that he should help us with Esav, which is referring to the yetzer hara, pen yovei vehikani ey malboni, that the yetzer hara should not take away our ahav of Yirat. It is mekubal in Chassidus Karlin that the Rav Atzadi, the Ribbarein Hagadol, would sing this nigun on the words from Megillah Esther, "Vatosif Esther v't'daber lifnei hamelech." We will first play this nigun l'fi nusach Chabad, then by the nusach of Karlin, and at the end, the way it is sang at a tish at Chassidus Slonim.