The Ten Niggunim What The Rebbe teached Simchas Torah morning, Rabbi Shmuel Lew, 5784

I was going to give everyone a rest before y but I had a couple of requests about to to say something about and teaching it so I'll try to be Mak and speak generally about it's it's all reported and and it's in I'll tell you a little bit of a personal um observation on each of the N that I saw uh just to stop to look at the general thing that would finish her about 3:00 in the morning probably 3:30 it was it was long because selling out until the late lamid the selling of would be an hour and a half maybe was very long time l that they started getting people's pledges before so they were just able to read out the names and that procedure became much shorter the would go upstairs to the second floor to's apartment came down probably somewhere between 4 and 5 and it would be there maybe an hour or two there was a crowd it pressed but it was probably not more than a couple hundred people I don't know um but everyone was crowded near that ever I knew at least one person from T he did not come to H he was like he he never Jo he considered himself close to laich but he used to come and walk from Bor Park every year just to hear the nigan the his of the this was a very special aspect of theau other as well some which he revived like but these were that in the morning are in a category of their own I always thought of it like in the morning there were two parts to this one was introducing explaining and teaching a nigan and the other was the Distributing Mas to anybody who undertakes to increase Li that year it that was his G very approach of sort of it it with the Reb's day it it was very intimate something like the faans which was the first time we saw the with until then the only saer was the re when he when he had and andus but otherwise he didn't see a safer and the whole tone if you look at the in was very very close but morning it was much much more and it was day the day was special and the connected the whole of in all of those and in all of those practically every n had to do with the rebba would give an introduction sing the niggan once or twice maybe and the would then give Mash so there was a certain um tension there you wanted to be near the re as near as possible on the one hand the other hand there had to be a s a line going by the Reber and in the middle while the line was going let's say the would give out maska for 10 15 minutes then he would stop abruptly and sing the nigan again and possibly say something more about that nigan I was not there in when no one knew about it beforeand I learned that on from Rabbi who taught two years I learned by him in and they had a I have a regret to this day I did not go I was I was still in but I should have known better but from until when theau the other eight I was there um in it's known that the re said that this nigan has two parts the first part is is aad it's the straightforward that they sing on all the time and then there's the second part which is repetitive I'm sorry sorry sorry that's I take that back what I just said this it's it's only the was the and the one that he was the it was which was divided into two which I'll come to in a minute spoke about the even though it's about there was a tremendous in intensity when the Reit spoke about sh the Nim and the was holding a bottle of maska there was the small bottles of mas gave out from at at these events at these or whatever you call it and he was holding the bottle of mas and like opening and closing the cover while he said I remember one part with when spoke about the is in prison even the biggest s what kind of prison it says in that you cannot compare it to the that had when the said that it was very very emotional um was that was the last that was sung with the re standing on a box on on a like a milk crate or something on a wooden box because later on they had the Sho and the was on the be on on the front of the Sho he stood but it was near the place where that where there was the fans and uh in I what I remember is that at I was right beneath the re when he stopped abruptly and sang it again and I saw clearly as theang the N there were two streams of Tears as he sang this nigan and uh in the said as is probably reported in the with the more there will be the Brokenhearted list the more there will be the response from Hashem in was famous story sorry was and here there was s and Thea the first part that they sing in the D time and then repetition as it says the is everything is and it's a person that's agitated that's singing that second part was and the re there at some after some stage said if anyone who knows sing with and I what I remember that RAB khov knew he sang it uh he was the only person I I it didn't a lot of it didn't work there so I I'm withholding in the middle of when said by and I remember with his distinctive accent like I remember him singing it when Alone um and and the story then there was in and all all in he spoke about the whole TSH and it he has pieces of Theos of it's in Hebrew it's in yish it's in Russian and Ukrainian four different languages like the agitation of Abal tra and theb when he was teaching it and looking for people who the N quickly he theb said um where is the artist he was looking for rendle who wasn't there um I said it was you know there was a crowd but it was not a a gigantic crowd all these n um I also remember by the way going back I think it was by shamil's nigan and somebody was questioning the way where was singing it and the told this person as M something to that effect uh like leave him alone um the came down and made two announcements not sure the order of the two I think right away he said the re said that he's going to teach t this year but he is giving like a warning and maybe he even said in order to continue this in future years I don't remember but said that anybody who did not experience practice dedicate a in the past year not future this is not a Caba for the future whoever didn't do it in the past do not come from from maska and um I'm sure that most people did not go up from maska on that occasion but and I also think that those who did go were either very big who are very mtic or people who didn't really understand that the meant you know just emphasizing but at some stage the said everyone's coming even kids under B and said those words what'll happen next year I don't know and that would sounded like saying that this is the end but since I promised another n for this year we're going to sing it and he taught hu this nigan of hu we knew we used to sing it even I think the part of was not part of that original and some people thought that the himself added that that that that and um in laich in the in the village laich there was a cousin called thein a very very famous cousin and he matched these this into these words and um the told the nigan at during the um singing of the niggan either that night you know that 4 5:00 in the morning or 6 7:00 when when the would teach the again and and say a few more words and the sang it and the said um well maybe when the whole was singing it and it was maybe not as if who connected indan with these words would see you see it without a storm without an intensity he would make an intense storm himself and protest and uh another time was the sang it and he said uh but it came to I and I think he skipped out that part and the said where and also in that n the said that the the the most the point of that whole song is hang the words that's another of the G Mia is is the uh important part of that they um now so that was the completion of 10 in the morning it's a set even any other whatever this was a set of these 10 now the next year it was didn't harp on this go go on and on they're saying there's not going to be any more so um I'm sure people I certainly as a a young younger man just married thought maybe we have a chance and when it came the next year the night of it was then it was we thought or I thought since it's just two weeks after the E's mother passed away maybe he will not want to do something of not singing which would seem like like or something maybe we have a chance or something we would never know let's wait after theb goes out at the end after the last kades the Reb said made an announcement we spoke last year he said something to the fact that last year we concluded the of in the morning and I will therefore sing one of the previous ones and here I personally remember that the one that the was and I remember also did not say it was the second part he said that's how I remember it I remember that I must say I burst out crying then because it meant this is it after a whole year hoping that maybe we'll get it we'll get it backo and his a few years ago I heard this whole story but he said he had a different one I don't remember which one he said that say later I spoke to him um maybe the time of the K I met him I had the biggest respect for the memory of accuracy of memory of him and by the way of I never discussed this with him also seems very accurate in what he says but to me in my memory it's very firmly implanted that it was and now we have those n they are a summary of they are summary of Are All One Thing it says that refers to that's why enumerated other qualities he said because permeates and illuminates all the other parts of a person and um the Reb's day the re the Reb we saw it when and is a very man to reacquaint ourselves and and with with these help everyone should have a good young