#12 R' Mendel's Niggun

00:01 There was once a farbrengen in Aloterra. It was in honor of the anniversary of Aloterra, and they brought down Reb Mendel Morozov to the farbrengen. So in the middle of the farbrengen, he, uh, he said, "Oh, does anybody know my nigun, Reb Mendel's nigun?" So everybody started to sing, He says, "No, no, no, that's, uh, that's something else." He says, uh, there's actually a nigun that he brought. What's the story? So he said that, uh, once in the early years, the Rebbe once asked that for the next farbrengen they should, uh, bring a psanu nigun. So, uh, the Baal HaMenagem went around asking people if they have a psanu nigun, a nigun that's not known, to bring to the Rebbe's next farbrengen. So when they came to him, he said, "Yeah, I have a nigun. Once years ago when I was in Russia," says Reb Mendel, "I was, uh, traveling on a train and, uh, I found on the train the Hasid, Reb Moshe Charitonov, the brother of Reb Sholom and Reb Aaron Charitonov. And so I sat next to him, and Reb Moshe said, 'Reb Mendel, you wanna hear a new nigun from my brother Sholom?' So I said, 'Sure.' And he taught me a nigun, and, uh, so I sang the nigun to this, uh, Baal HaMenagem who came to my house asking for a new nigun for the Rebbe's next farbrengen." But they didn't recognize the nigun, so they went to Reb Shamshon Charitonov, the son of Reb Sholom, the son of

01:32 the mechaber of the nigun, and they asked him, "Did you ever hear of this nigun?" They sang it to him, and he said no, he didn't recognize it. A few days later, he came back and he said, "I just found it in my father's notes, this nigun." And later on it was put into Nechayach. I will, uh, play this nigun the way it's in Nechayach, and then I will sing one part of the nigun with a little bit of a different nusach that I heard. And here is a little bit of a different nusach on the second fal.