#13 R' Berel Maseyev

00:05 Reb Berel Marseyev was Migdaleh Ach Chassidim in the city of Kremenchug, one of the Berel Ach, uh, group of Bavustek Chassidim who had the name Dov. The Fidele Rebbe relates that Reb Berel was a talmid of the Chassidim of the Mitteler Rebbe named Reb Baruch and Reb Shmuel Tomas. Reb Shmuel was a chartziker, and Reb Baruch was a ba'al mochin. The Fidele Rebbe continues that by his first yechidus by the Tzemach Tzedek, the Tzemach Tzedek told him, to Reb Berel, that my zeide, the Alter Rebbe, said that the Ba'al Shem Tov teicht the pasuk, "holech yelech uvoche, noseh meshech hazorah. Bo yavo berino, noseh alamov sav." So the Ba'al Shem Tov teicht it like this, holech yelech uvoche, when you go with a merirus after davening, then it's noseh meshech hazorah. Then the avodas hatefillah has a good zria, a good planting. But if it's bo yavo berino, when you are very much beharchavah after davening, and happy about your own avodas hatefillah, then it's noseh alamov sav. He carries empty straw. And the Fidele Rebbe continues, afterwards, Reb Berel said that with that, the Rebbe turned me over min hakotze lakotze. And the, the chossid Reb Chaim Ber from Kremenchug said that Reb Berel davened so chartzik that whoever heard his davening became a ba'al teshuva. There's a Bavustan nigun from Reb Berel Marseyev that was very much chaviv by the Fidele Rebbe, and the Fidele Rebbe himself actually wrote in a letter asking, um, the people who were in charge of making the

01:43 Sefer HaNigunim that they should put this nigun into Sefer HaNigunim. In the Yom Tov seudah of the first day of Shavuos, תש"ד, the Fidele Rebbe said, "We have to sing the nigun of Reb Berel Marseyev. He was a ba'aleiv, a ba'aleiv rochov. When he would daven, the way he davened affected even non-Jews, and through his davening, he made many ba'alei teshuva." In Sefer HaNigunim, Reb Shmuel Zamimov, um, describes the nigun as follows: "It's a pnimius dike Chabad nigun that penetrates the chords of the neshamah and the heart. The nigun demands and doesn't allow you to silence it and to excuse yourself until in the last fal, in the last part of the nigun, you hear a sound that expresses a firm decision to stand strong against any opposition in avodas Hashem." And we'll play this nigun now, and thank you to, uh, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Amar from Project Gaagaim who allowed us to use his recording, his geschmakte recording of this nigun. Afterwards, we'll also play this nigun from a rare recording of a farbrengen of the Fidele Rebbe, the way they sing this at a farbrengen of the Fidele Rebbe. And if you listen carefully, you will notice there's a few differences in the way they sang it back then, which is probably more closer to the, to the real way than the way it's mekubal to sing it now. I just wanna say thank you to those who subscribed to the channel and became contributing members. You could do so by pressing on

03:07 a link in the show notes. When you subscribe, it gives us a extra push to keep putting out these episodes more frequent and bigger and better. Here are some diyukim that I noticed in the way they sang it over there, which might be worthwhile to point out. So in the second fal, everybody usually sings today, and only in the second time . But, uh, by the Philip Rebbes Farbrengen, already on the first time it's . Another diyuk is in the, in the third fal. Uh, ha- Everybody sings today . But by the Philip, but by the Philip Rebbes Farbrengen it sounds like it's . If you didn't notice, the difference was the way people sing it today is that there's first a strong lower note, and then it jumps up. But by, but at Farbrengen over there it's, it goes pretty quickly from the low note to the high note. Also in the end of that fal. And the way they sing it today is . If you noticed that this, this note that's dragged the way they sing it today. Again, but, uh, it seems like over there they didn't drag that note, and it was as short as all the other notes.