The Nigun Shamil (Part 4)

00:01 Behemsech to the early installments about the nigun of Shamil, in the audio numbers six forty-four through six forty-six, we will now discuss additional facts and details about this nigun. Rab Nachman Sudak from England related that when the Rebbe came in and he stood up on a box, and the box seemed to be somewhat not stu-sturdy, and Rab Nachman held on to the box so that the Rebbe could stand on it securely. Rab Feivish Vogel, zol zayn gezunt, related that there were approximately about fifty people present, much less than in the previous years. Rab Sudak recalled that when the Rebbe taught the nigun, the Rebbe said that since Shamil was a wild man, therefore the sections of the nigun end very abruptly, not as it is in music or nigunim that each part concludes in a pleasant manner. In a yuman written by one of the Hasidim at the time the, the f- that the nigun was taught, it is noted as follows. After the Rebbe entered the shalach, which is the downstairs yard of seven-seventy, as it was then a yard, the Rebbe's face was very serious. And while crying very much, the Rebbe told the story of Shamil, as we mentioned it in the above audio, and its lesson in Avodas Hashem. The atmosphere was not as in the previous years, but rather very serious. The Rebbe began singing the nigun, which contains three sections expressing yearning, pain, and hope. Originally, the Rebbe began singing the nigun on a low volume, and after that,

02:17 when his voice choked from tears, the crying was awesome. After he sang the nigun twice, the Rebbe turned to Rab Mesha Telleshevsky and to Rab Yael Kahn, zol zayn gezunt, who had the talent to learn a nigun quickly, and he asked them to sing the nigun. But because the Rebbe was crying very much during the nigun, they were not successful in grasping the nigun. The Rebbe motioned with his hand as it Noah beetled and returned to his room. This event took about one and a half hours, much longer than in the earlier years. And although this was already six AM, after a full night of farbrengen and nakafes, the Rebbe's face did not show any tiredness, even in the least. Hasidim recall that the reason that the Rebbe sang the nigun several times during the Purim farbrengen of that year was because Hasidim did not yet grasp the nigun in a polished manner. In a video which was released from Jem called Keshel Bracha, when they sang the nigun of Shamil, one can see that the Rebbe motions with his hands to sing the nigun with a lebedikeit, livelier, which is unusual by this nigun. And Hasidim began singing the nigun with a quicker pace than usual.