Nigun Hu Elokenu - Part 3

00:01 The hemsech to the earlier installment is benegea to the nigun Hu Elokeinu. We continue now with installment number three, discussing additional facts benegea to Hu Elokeinu as when the Rebbe asked that the nigun should be sung at a farbrengen. It was Tov Shin Chof Dalet, 1964, Shabbos Mini. The Rebbe asked the nigun should be sung at a farbrengen. The next year, Tov Shin Chof Hei, late 1964, during the farbrengen of the second day Rosh Hashanah, the Rebbe asked that the nigun Heishias Amecha and the nigun Hu Elokeinu should be sung. Simchas Devar, Tov Shin Chof Hei, which marked a complete year since the Rebbe taught the two nigunim Ki Anu Amecha and Atah Bechar Tonu, the Rebbe asked that the nigunim should be sung at a farbrengen. During the farbrengen of the second day Rosh Hashanah, Tov Shin Chof Ov, it's late 1965, the Rebbe asked that the nigun Hu Elokeinu should be sung. Likewise, Shabbos Parsha Dvorim, it's Shabbos Chazin, the Shabbos before Tisha B'Av, Tov Shin Chof Tes, 1969, the Rebbe stood up to dance when this nigun was sung. On the 6th of Tishrei, the yortzeit of the Rebbe Tzena Chana, the Rebbe's mother, Tov Shin Lamed, late 1969, the Rebbe asked the Hasidim should sing the nigun Hu Elokeinu and the Rebbe got up to dance by this nigun. Shabbos Chazin, Tov Shin Lamed Gimel, the Rebbe would customarily, after Mincha that followed a farbrengen Shabbos afternoon, the Rebbe would walk out from Mincha and he would begin a nigun. The

02:14 nigun the Rebbe sung then was the nigun Hu Elokeinu. It's interesting to note that farbrengen was a very eventful farbrengen that reflected something that took place months later in the war of Yom Kippur. The Rebbe at that farbrengen distributed wine to all the children that are, of course, under bar mitzvah. It was to be mevatel digzeira mepei eilim beyenkim from the mouths of the young children. Hashem found the strength that this will help the Jews overcome enemies. In the year Tov Shin Mem, late 1979, the night before the 2nd of Cheshvan, the Rebbe asked to sing the nigun Hu Elokeinu. And in conclusion, in the year Tov Shin Mem Beis, the first half of the year, which is approximately the beginning of 1982, the Rebbe before leaving after a farbrengen began singing the nigun Hu Elokeinu. And this brings us to the conclusion, completion of the nigunim that the Rebbe taught us, Ki Anu Amecha and Hu Elokeinu are the last of the 10 nigunim that the Rebbe taught, mostly on the occasion of Simchas Devar morning. We can also add another few occasions during which the nigun Hu Elokeinu came up. One was Rosh Hashanah Tov Shin Mem Ches, late 1987. After the maimer, the Rebbe asked that they should sing the nigun Hu Elokeinu. In addition, there were occasions in the Sukkos evenings when the Rebbe would speak a sicha after ma'ariv for the simcha of Beis HaShe'eva. The Rebbe would speak every evening, beginning from Tov Shin Mem Aleph, late 1980. And

04:36 at times, upon the Rebbe's leaving the shul, the Rebbe would begin singing the nigun Hu Elokeinu.