#3 R' Shlomo Chashniker and R' Yisroel Dubrovner

00:01 Reb Shloime Tchachnike was a Hasid of the Alter Rebbe. His father was a Hasid, Reb Yisroel from Dubrovno. Both Reb Shloime and his father were known as baalim and nagnim nefla'im. On Chodesh Sivan, tet kuf samach zayin, the daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe, Sorah, got married with the einikel of Rebbe Eli'e Tzadok Barditchever in the city of Zholovin. After hashtoreb dike chuppah, all the Hasidim went to rest, and the Alter Rebbe went into his room. Reb Yisroel took his violin and started to play right outside Alter Rebbe's room. After a while, the Alter Rebbe opened his door and invited Reb Yisroel to keep playing inside his room. He went into the room and he kept playing. After a while of Reb Yisroel playing inside the Rebbe's room, the Alter Rebbe started to say a chiddush on the pasuk, "Vayehi kinoga na menagen vatehi olav ruach Hashem." When the mashgiach saw that, uh, the Alter Rebbe is saying chiddush, he quickly ran to call all the Hasidim from all the chasunias, and all the Hasidim gathered into Alter Rebbe's room, and Alter Rebbe kept, kept saying chiddush all the way till seven o'clock in the morning. His son, Reb Shloime, Reb Shloime Tchachnike was also at the chasunah. So once, during one of the sheva berachos, the Alter Rebbe and his mechutan, Rebbe Eli'e Tzadok Barditchever, were dancing to Reb Shloime's tunes while he was playing his violin. They were dancing and dancing. In the middle, Rebbe Eli'e Tzadok Barditchever was so inspired by the tunes

01:27 that Reb Shloime was playing, he turned around to him, opened up his shirt, showed him his heart, and he said, "Seretse," some sort of a word in the Russian or Polish that means, um, some, some sort of an affectionate word. He said, "Seretse, look at my heart, and you wouldn't have chashava zaros by davening anymore." And Reb Shloime testified later on that since then he has never had any issues with chashava zaros by davening. There are three nigunim which are meyuchas to Reb Shloime Tchachnike. The first one is known as Yeridas Haneshama Beguf. It has three fallen. The first one describes when they notify the neshamah on Beis Inshal Mailoh that it has to go down to this world. The second fall describes the za'akah and the protest of the neshamah when he hears that it has to go down to this world. And the third fall is the calming answer to the neshamah that the whole yeridah is tzedek aliyah. And we'll play this nigun sung by our Rebbe Hasid, Reb Shalom Horowitz, sh'yichyeh, from Crown Heights. Rabbi Chassid Reuven Dunin, alav ha-shalom, very much liked this nigun, and used to call it, , the nigun of the cows, because the way it starts, which reminds you of cows. Anyways, he said that, uh, Rabbi Shloime Chaim Kaseman, alav ha-shalom, which was his mashpia when he was a bachur in Tomchei Temimim, um, very much liked this nigun, and sometimes the Farbrengens would sing it for a very long time, sometimes even up to

09:03 forty minutes at a time. The next nigun is called Nigun Yoshon or otherwise known as Nigun HaYechidus, which is the nigun that Rabbi Shloime Tashkear used to sing before going into Yechidus. At Purim Tashin Chai, the Hasidim sang this nigun, and at the end the Rebbe said, "This was a Taanis Esther diken nigun, and now let's sing a Purim diken nigun." We will now play this nigun by Project Sefie Nigunim. I will put a link on the bottom to get to the whole project. They have many Geshmake Nigunim recorded, led by Reb Berel Zucker. The next nigun is called the Nigun of After Yechidus. After Reb Shlomo Cheshin will go out of Yechidus, he will burst into a dance, uh, and singing this nigun. We'll play this nigun song by the Cheder Chabad Toronto Choir. About 15 years ago, I was sitting once upstairs 770 between Mincha and Maariv on Shabbos afternoon, Rav and the Ravin, and Rav Yoel Kahn, alav ha-shalom, ran a Seder Nigunim And he taught us a new nigun, a nigun I've never heard before, and I actually never heard it afterwards anywhere else. I once asked a expert on nigunim, I'm not gonna mention his name because he himself wasn't certain about it, but that person told me that he believes that this nigun is also from Reb Shlomo Carashniker. So I will sing it here, but it is not for sure from Reb Shlomo Carashniker.