Devekut Niggun for Shabbat (Alter Rebbe)

Devekut Niggun is a niggun of devotion for Shabbat prayers attributed to the Alter Rebbe. With this niggun, the Rebbe Rashab and the Rebbe Rayatz would pray with immense devekut (attachment) and enthusiasm according to the Chabad approach every Shabbat Kodesh when they prayed in private.

The Rebbe Rayatz once expressed about this niggun: "When one prays at length and engages in avoda, the niggun emerges by itself."

Since the movements of this niggun rise and fall from contemplative thought and deep kavanos in prayer, and according to the spiritual states and heart feelings of the tzaddik, it is difficult to determine the precise order of the sections of this niggun. Sometimes he would sing one section first and sometimes another. He would also sometimes pause between them to recite the words of the prayer, and sometimes he would hum only portions of the niggun. Therefore, this niggun is presented in an additional version in Sefer HaNiggunim Volume 2 (Part 1), as heard from the chassid R' David Leib Marozov as he heard it from his father, R' Elchanan Dov.

This niggun is number 8 in Sefer HaNiggunim (additional version - niggun 178).

External Links

To hear the niggun on the Heichal Negina website
To hear the niggun performed by the musician R' Dovid Horowitz
To hear the niggun arranged by R' Elaor Velner
Aharon Fruchtman, 24 Tevet 5778
To hear the niggun performed by the Kapelye Choir at the 19 Kislev 5779 farbrengen in Boro Park
To hear the niggun performed by R' Mordechai Brotzky