ניגון לר' יחיאל מיכל זלאטשאווער

00:11 Nigun Nisoi Dus Rachmim Rabim is a nigun from Reb Yechiel Michl Zlotchover from the talmidim of the Ba'al Shem Tov. It is Mekubal that the Ba'al Shem Tov before his his takus asked that they should sing this nigun, and after they sang it, the Ba'al Shem Tov said, "I promise that when, where, and whoever will sing this nigun, that in any heichal that I will be found, there are malachim that bring news to the neshamas in the heichals, so I will know about it, and I will also join in the singing and bimeheora rachmim rabim on the one who sings." And at another opportunity, the Ba'al Shem Tov said about Reb Michl, "Reb Michl is a frequent guest in Heichal Hashir. He enters whenever he wants, and he chooses from there nigunim of tshukah nisoi dus." The Friediker Rebbe related that Reb Michl composed this nigun one of the years that he wasn't able to travel to the Ba'al Shem Tov because he was sick, and the nigun expressed his ga'agim to the Ba'al Shem Tov, to his Rebbe. And the nigun is divided to three parts, and each one of them expresses another stage in the ga'agim of Reb Michl to the Ba'al Shem Tov. The first part of the nigun expresses the tremendous tshukah to see the Ba'al Shem Tov. The second part of the nigun expresses the tremendous simcha and the infinite joy when he finally reaches, and he is by his Rebbe. And the third part expresses the complete hismaslus, ibergibenkait,

01:48 and his kashrus to the Rebbe after he reached the Rebbe. The Rebbe Rashab said about the nigun, "The nigun accomplishes psichas halev, chassidishe yiras hakavod, ga'agah, and tikvah." And the Rebbe Maharash once told the Rebbe Rashab that the idea of this nigun is expressed in the pasuk, "Ish okshas ruach anochi." And that the tochen of the nigun is, "Ve'esh pachas nafshi lifnei Hashem." And the Rebbe Maharash explained, "Ish okshas ruach anochi is referring to knesses Yisroel, which is malchus of atziluss. However, the way it's still in atziluss, then it's only in a pshina of simcha. However, lemata, when the neshamas come down lemata, not the way they are in atziluss, then you could actually have the union of kshas ruach. And the tochen of this nigun is, 'Ve'esh pachas nafshi lifnei Havaya,' bimeheora rachamim rabim to draw down chevdah and simcha in the knesses Yisroel that's lemata, that there should be a simcha in neshamas Yisroel." There is the famous nusach of the, of the nigun that was sung throughout the generations. However, there is more of a meduyek dike nusach that Reb Michoel Dwarkin heard from the Rebbe Rashab. And a few days before 57 Tov Shin Alef, which means a few days before the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin arrived in America, there was a farbrengen. And the Friediker Rebbe asked by the farbrengen that they should sing the nigun of Reb Michl Zlotchover with the nusach of Reb Michoel Dwarkin. So the crowd that was at the farbrengen didn't know the nusach, so

03:25 they didn't sing. So the Friediker Rebbe said, "In the next few days, my son-in-law will come, and he's a baal menagen, and he's, and he's gonna teach it." And vechach avo in the first farbrengen of the Rebbe after he came, which was on Thursday, Beis Tammuz in a small zal. During the farbrengen, the Rebbe taught Reb Michl Zlotchover's nigun according to the nusach of Reb Michoel Dwarkin. And many years later, when they put out the 14th album of Nichayach, the Rebbe told them to put two recordings of Reb Michoel Dwarkin over there, one of this nigun and one of another Geshmake Velach. Now, the people in charge of, uh, recording the Nichayach, they were not Hasidim. They were professionals. And they hesitated because it was an old recording from like Tov Shin Ches, and there's a lot of background noise, and it wasn't professionally made. It was just a recording of the Alter Rebbe Chassid singing. So Hasidim asked the Rebbe if they're a- uh, they, they asked, um, if they could at least put some music in the background, and the Rebbe said no. And then the, the way I heard it was that they asked if they could at least add just a violin in the background, and the Rebbe answered no. And the only thing that the Rebbe did agree to, that they should remove some of the background noises. We'll first play it the way it's in the more famous nusach from Nichayach, and then the recording of Reb Michoel Dwarkin

04:49 singing it.