Niggun Dveikus of Rosh Hashono

00:09 This Nigun Dveikus, the Alter Rebbe and the other Nasi of Chabad in every generation would sing by the davening in Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, especially in the davening of the first night of Rosh Hashanah, and before Tekias Shofar on both days. In the sicha of the second night of Rosh Hashanah, tav shin beis, the Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe revealed the source of this nigun. The Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe related that when the Alter Rebbe was by his rebbe, the Mezitcher Maggid, he saw that the Mezitcher Maggid is davening Mincha on Erev Rosh Hashanah with tremendous arichus and with a nigun of hisoyrus and tremendous crying, like someone who is saying goodbye to a loved one. Then the Maariv of the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the Mezitcher Maggid davened with a tremendous arichus for a few hours and with tremendous crying. Later, the sicha of the Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe went to describe how the Ibister wants to hear praises about Yidden. And then the Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe ended off by saying that when Rebbe Kehos, which was a hidden tzadik, a talmid of the Baal Shem Tov, once told the Baal Shem Tov that he overheard a conversation between two horse dealers in the market and how one of them told the other a lesson they learned from a horse in avodas Hashem. So when the Baal Shem Tov heard that, the Baal Shem Tov got very excited with a nigun and a tremendous dveikus. And Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe finishes off, "This is the source of the

01:40 Nigun Dveikus that the Alter Rebbe and all the Rebbeim would daven by Maariv on the first night of Rosh Hashanah with a devoted dveikus and crying that tears the heart like someone who is crying because of a loved one who is gone." Here is a description of a tamim who was present by the davening of the Rebbe Rashab on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, taf reish samach. It is printed in HaTamim. And this tamim describes, "I got close to the place of the Rebbe to hear the davening of the Rebbe. As soon as I got close to the heilike place, suddenly I heard tremendous crying and deep sighs, the Rebbe's davening and crying. There isn't a single word that the Rebbe is saying that is not soaked in rivers of tears. The congregation finished davening already, but no one moved from his place to go home. Everybody, as one, stood squished together around the place of the Rebbe and listened with all of their senses to the davening of the Rebbe. The Rebbe was still standing in the middle of davening, and he was davening with one of the ten nigunim from the Alter Rebbe, which this nigun is meyuchad for the davening of the Yomim Noraim. The tnuos of the nigun go up and down. They demand and request, and from the heart of the Rebbe burst out a tremendous cry that weakens the whole body and demolishes the soul. There are different types of crying. There is crying because of pain. There's

03:21 crying because of something is missing. There's a cry of yearning to something. There's a cry of simcha and hope. This cry that you hear in the Rebbe's davening is not any of those, and maybe it includes all of them together. We can't really pinpoint the reason for the Rebbe's cry, and we can't actually limit the Rebbe's cry to a specific reason." In the Sefer Lubavitch VeChayaleiho, it is related that on the Mincha of Erev Yom Kippur, the Rebbe Rashab would daven very long Shemoneh Esrei with a lot of crying out loud, and he would daven with that same nigun of the first night of Rosh Hashanah. When Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe visited Eretz Yisrael on the summer of taf reish beis tes, we find a description of when the Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe also sang that nigun, even though it was during the summer. And it is written in Rabbi Galitzstein's, uh, Yoman as follows, that on Tuesday, zayin Menachem Av afternoon, the Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe came to Hebron. When he came to Hebron, he first went to visit the home of his cousin, Rebbe Yaakov Yosef Slonim. He was there for a little while, and then he went to the Ma'aras Hamachpela. And he davened over there Mincha with the Nigun Dveikus of the davening of Rosh Hashanah, which penetrated everyone's hearts till everyone burst out crying. After Mincha, he surrounded the Ma'aras Hamachpela, and then he entered with a special permit that he got. On the farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim tav shin yud alef,

04:56 the Rebbe instructed to sing the Rosh Hashanah di Ketnua, this nigun. And the Rebbe said we should sing it again and again, and the Rebbe himself joined in the singing, and he was crying tremendously. A few days later, in the farbrengen of the second day of Rosh Hashanah, tav shin yud beis, which is the first Rosh Hashanah after the Rebbe accepted the nasius, they sang this nigun again, followed by the dalet bavis. In the Yoman of Reb Yael Akan from that year, Reb Yael describes the Seder of the Tkiyas and how the Rebbe's tallis was soaked with tears, and we're able to tell that the Rebbe is crying tremendously, and how the Rebbe's singing a nigun under the tallis. Reb Yael writes that he couldn't tell which nigun it is, but that those who were standing closer to the Rebbe told him that that's the tnuah of Rosh Hashanah that they sang a few days ago in the farbrengen of Parshas Nitzavim. However, in some other yomanim, it is written about the same tkiyas that it wasn't this nigun, rather the Rebbe was singing the nigun of, uh, gimel tnuos. On the seudah of the second night of Rosh Hashanah, tav shin lamed alef, which the Rebbe had upstairs in the Tzemach Tzedek Rebbe's apartment- One of the people in the Seudah asked the Rebbe, what's the meaning of what the Alter Rebbe writes in the Siddur that after Krias Hatorah, the person should prepare himself to blow shofar? What is that preparation? So the

06:21 Rebbe answered that I heard from the Rebbe, the Shver, I heard from my father-in-law, the Rebbe, that you sing a few tnuos from a nigun, and that's what the Rebbe Rashab also did. And this nigun is already printed in Sefer HaNigunim. That was the Rebbe's reply.