Nigun Prozos Teishev - Part II

00:00 The in continuation to the earlier installment regarding the and how it was composed during the late nineteen sixty-eight upon the instruction of the Rebbe. We continue now with installment number two, discussing the first evening of Pesach nineteen sixty-nine. It was the Seder of Pesach which took place on the second floor in the previous Rebbe's apartment, where the Rebbe would have all the seders, all the meals of Yom Tov. During the first twenty years of his Nasius, the Rebbe would customarily pray, would commemorate the seders upstairs, and it was towards the end of the Seder. After they announced the Rebbe started on his own to sing the . And towards the end of the Seder, the Rebbe again began singing . This is when the Rebbe got up and returned back to his room after a late hour by the Seder. The second night Pesach was customarily a farbrengen by the Rebbe. The farbrengen would be one thirty AM. The Rebbe would elaborate on different sections of the Haggadah with insights that continued for about a few hours, up to approximately four AM. This was customary by the earlier Rebbe of Chabad, and the Rebbe kept up this tradition for twenty years. The Rebbe at one point referred to the by mentioning that the conclusion of the Haggadah is . So the Rebbe continues, we can connect it with . And it would be a good thing and a timely appropriate to sing the with the broadness higher than all limitations, and this will remove all

02:54 the obstacles. And in your name of Kitrugim there, there are in the higher spheres on the concept of . And because there are Kitrugim, there is confusion in this physical world, and it should be till they'll reach the Geulah, the redemption, which then whereas it will be the Almighty will be wandering in Golus. Everyone-- wherever he will see a Yid, he will take him by his hand and will take him out from the Golus to greet Moshiach Tzikeinu. They then sang the and the Rebbe got up from his seat and danced by this nigun for quite a while. To give a brief overview, in the following years, in the months which followed when the nigun was introduced, there were occasions farbrengens during the Shabbosim which the Rebbe asked to sing the nigun, or the Rebbe himself began singing the nigun. One of them from the early Shabbosim was Parshat Beshalach . The Rebbe then began singing the nigun and got up to dance on his place during this nigun. In general, by Chassidim it was very obviously understood that when the Rebbe is getting up to dance by a nigun, this was something unusual, exceptional, something which the Rebbe wanted to accomplish in the higher spheres and in this physical world with the concept, the content of the meaning of the nigun. And actually that same Shabbos Beshalach, when the Rebbe walked out of farbrengen, he again began singing and also before Ma'ariv the Rebbe began singing this nigun. And this is also very unusual

05:27 because upstairs when the Rebbe would come into Ma'ariv, the Rebbe would generally not begin singing a nigun. As soon as the Rebbe would come in, Ma'ariv would begin. So this was something new and very exceptional. In Parshat Ki Tisa, a few weeks after Parshat Beshalach, again the Rebbe asked to sing the nigun and after the the after Bracha the Rebbe began singing the nigun himself. Likewise, in Parshat VaYakob, Hudei, and as mentioned earlier, during Pesach. In the year taf shin lamed, from Rosh Chodesh on and on, there were occasions which the Rebbe asked to sing the Nigun Prozis Teshev. As we move on with the years, it was taf shin lamed vav. Taf shin lamed vav, 1976, beginning of spring, Rosh Chodesh year, the Rebbe then farbrenged, which the farbrengen itself was also unusual. The Rebbe then introduced the 12 psukim that children should study by heart, and it later proved to be exactly two months before the hijacking and the rescue in Entebbe, which took place in the summer of 1976. And here we see in a very interesting way how the Rebbe includes this Nigun Prozis that should be sung at that time. From Rosh Chodesh year, and the second day year, and then Parshat Bamidbar, which is right before Shavuot, and the second day Shavuot, and Yud Gimmel Tammuz, which is already after the rescue in Entebbe. And also through the summer, occasionally, specific farbrengens that the Rebbe asked the Nigun should be sung, which was very obvious that the Rebbe was

07:45 relating to the Yidden in Eretz Yisrael. Likewise, in Taf Shin Lamed Zayin, late 1976, occasionally Tishrei and Yud Shevat, and some upcoming occasions that the Rebbe asked that the Nigun should be sung. Interesting that when it was Chof Ches Oder, Taf Shin Lamed Zayin, 1977, that there was then a hijacking with hostages in Washington. The Rebbe spoke about it at the farbrengen, the lesson that we can derive from it, and this is in addition to what took place in Entebbe the summer of the earlier year, and the Rebbe then also asked to sing the Nigun Prozis. It also continued in Taf Shin Lamed Ches, 1978, various occasions that the Rebbe asked the Nigun should be sung. Likewise in 1979 and Taf Shin Mem, 1980. When we look further, we do not find so often that the Rebbe should ask to sing the Nigun, which as understood by Chassidim, that there were certain tekufot, certain times, certain eras that the Rebbe asked for the Nigun in order to accomplish what needs to be accomplished by singing this Nigun.