The Shalosh Tenu'os (Niggun)
The niggun (Chassidic melody) known as Shalosh Tenu'os — "Three Movements" — is a melody whose three movements are each attributed to a different Rebbe: the first movement to the Baal Shem Tov, the second to the Maggid of Mezeritch (who would sing the first movement with his own movement added), and the third added by the Alter Rebbe.
The three movements are closely similar to one another, yet with each successive movement the melody grows stronger and the intensity deepens.
This niggun is one of those that the Rebbe would periodically call for at his farbrengens (Chassidic gatherings for teaching and inspiration).
In Sefer HaNiggunim (the authoritative collection of Chabad melodies), Volume 2 (Part 1), this niggun appears as Niggun 20,[1] with a somewhat different version given for its final two stanzas — a version that has been the tradition among elder Anash (Chabad Chassidim) in Russia. When one Chassid expressed surprise that this niggun had apparently not been sung in Lubavitch, the Rebbe replied that he too had not heard it before coming to America — but since Rabbi Shmuel Zalmanov had included it in Sefer HaNiggunim together with the attribution of each movement, and the Frierdiker Rebbe (the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn) had certainly been aware of this, the niggun stands as presented.
Tzion BeMishpat Tipadeh[edit | edit source]
At the farbrengen of Shabbos Chazon in 1975 — the Shabbos before Tisha B'Av, traditionally a time of mourning over the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash (Holy Temple) — the Rebbe remarked that even the most sublime and elevated niggun must descend into words, and directed that Shalosh Tenu'os be sung to the words Tzion bemishpat tipadeh veshaveha bitzedakah — "Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and her returnees through righteousness" (Isaiah 1:27).
Afterward, the Rebbe said that the niggun must also be expressed in a spirit of joy, as a reflection of our hope that "these days will be transformed into gladness and rejoicing." He then directed that the same words be sung to a joyful melody — whereupon the Chassidim began singing them to the Hakafos niggun of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, the Rebbe's father.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ An alternate version lists it as Niggun 182.
External Links[edit | edit source]
- Listen to the niggun at Heichal Neginah
- Listen to the niggun sung by the baal menagen (master singer) R' Dovid Horowitz
- Listen to an arrangement by R' Elaor Valner
- Listen to the niggun from "HaNiggunim HaMechuvvanim"
- Listen to the niggun from "Etzem HaNeshama"
- Listen to an arrangement by Yisrael Adelson
- Sung by the Admur of Nikolsburg Template:Video