Devekut Niggun for Shabbat (Alter Rebbe)
This Niggun Deveykus is a nigun of devekus — cleaving to G‑d — for the Shabbos prayers, attributed to the Alter Rebbe. Both the Rebbe Rashab and the Frierdiker Rebbe (the Previous Rebbe, R' Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn) would pray with this nigun, with immense devekus and fervor in the Chabad manner, every Shabbos Kodesh when they prayed alone.
The Frierdiker Rebbe once remarked about this nigun:[1]
When one prays at length and engages in avodah, the nigun emerges on its own.
Because the movements of this nigun rise and fall according to deep contemplative thought and intense concentration in prayer, and according to the shifting states of the soul and the heart's feeling within the tzaddik, it is difficult to establish a fixed order for its phrases. At times one phrase would come first, at times another; sometimes he would pause between phrases to recite the words of the prayer itself, and sometimes he would hum only passages of the nigun. For this reason, the nigun appears in an additional version in Sefer HaNiggunim, Volume II (Part I), as heard from the Chassid R' Dovid Leib Marozov, who received it from his father R' Elchanan Dov Marozov.
This nigun is Nigun No. 8 in Sefer HaNiggunim (the alternate version is Nigun No. 178).
Notes edit
- ↑ At a farbrengen on Purim 5703 (1943).
External Links edit
- Listen to the nigun — at the Heichal Neginah website
- Listen to the nigun — performed by the baal menagen R' Dovid Horowitz
- Listen to the nigun — arrangement by R' Elior Valner
- Aharon Fruchtman — 24 Teves 5778 (2018)
- Listen to the nigun performed by the Kapelye choir at the 19 Kislev farbrengen 5779 (2018) in Borough Park
- Listen to the nigun — performed by R' Mordechai Brutzky
- "Dich Alein": Singer Simcha Friedman releases a new single — a performance of the final passage of the nigun set to the words the Alter Rebbe was accustomed to saying during his devekus[1]