SoulSongs with Shais Taub and Eli Marcus (Season 1, Episode 1)

[Music] hi I'm here with my good friend le Marcus and we are talking about sedition aghanim some of the niganda mother melodies that speak to us and have interesting stories and inspire our service of a Shemin there's a particular negan which I find very moving and has a lot of interesting background to it which is the negan he stopped cosa nefesh nee gonna melody of the outpouring of the soul by the mendel hora Ducker who was one of the senior talmidim disciples of the medici maggot after the passing of the Magadh the Alta rabbit actually took that Mendel upon himself as a rabbit and when the rat Mendel hora docker went to edit his throw and he brought with him a group of about 300 Siddim the alta debe initially went with that Mendel but the Sydenham begged they begged Alta them and not to leave them that sit him in white Russia without a leader so the Alpha debe remained behind and started quail Aqaba the fund specifically for supporting those who were moving to edit cicero and read Mendel with his Sydenham went to edit Cicero they firstly started in spas then later into the area the show that they built their inter area is actually still standing to this day right I think I've been there you've been visited at Mendel hollow Dockers sure and that's where his resting place is in the area and that Mendel he composed a melody now it's interesting this melody has two parts and two of the parts of the first part of his top goes on a fish you know the first part goes and then the second part right so those two parts and those are the only two parts of the Negro and are identical to the second and third parts of it longer than England by the Alpharetta Blaney all right looks like goes like this first part of curl did well in second part is which is identical the first part metal hawkers and then the third part of colder D the second part of Redmond O'Hara Dockers and then cold lady goes on and has additional parts many many I guess I'll try by added see we don't know actually it's interesting whether Mendel harder docker composed his two parts and then the alter rebbe expanded musically upon it or if Valtor ABBA composed those two parts and that Mendel put words to it because the outfit ever he wrote ten England him he composed tender gunam and we know historically he started he started composing those in ego and him even as a student in message so we don't exactly know which direction the inspiration was flowing there musically actually it could be related to actually hop Kazakh from the follows ADA also from that from that era just no more flavor more bouncy well yeah yeah which is similar to so the spontaneous version of it is a little more bouncy and then the alte revenue hora Dockers version is a little more what would you call it the soulful serious which interestingly that mental harder dr. Sidious that Mendel haruka has a safer Priya audits fruit of the land because he was he lived in and in the Holy Land and his style of Sidis is very intellectual very deep and very demanding which obviously is similar to the out to the Alpharetta style which is Chabad which is you know kaufman bina das very intellectual and very very deep so the words this wouldn't year the Swart so there are five lines to the to the negan the first line is voltic haben Gildan and flee glean if I would have golden wings voltage so they're fleeing I would fly to you and this is the Jew expressing yearning wanting to be close to a sham if I could fly to you if only I could fly - he's wistfully sort of lamenting his inability to be to become as close as he wishes and then but if I can't voltic haben Gildan it add that if I would only have golden wheels like wagon wheels Volta - did a foreign I would travel to you if not voltic haben farallon's Otto if I would just have a more simple mode of transportation a horse and saddle that voltage so there get it and I would have rode to you and if I can't get to you voltic haben Tinto and feather if I would have a ink and pen voltage to the Gibbon at least if I can't I can't go to you but I can send I can write a message here I can get my message to you vote but if I can't even do that vote to calm in a Gildan finger roll if I would have a golden ring voltage to the reed Gabon I would give you my golden ring and and really these are different levels from higher to lower you know that wings and Kabbalah the two wings are love and awe so if I would have golden wings if I would have sufficient emotional capacity and I would bring myself up to the level of closeness but I can't but if maybe I could push myself some other way with Kabbalah soil with with receiving the yoke of heaven then and then I could get to you it but even if I can't get to you oh okay can communicate from where I am I'll stay where I am and I'll send you a message from the buttons from a distance but alas even if I can't get my message - I don't know how to communicate I don't know how to dive in but if I own something I have something whatever it is that I have my golden ring and we all have our golden ring I'll give it to you whatever I have with mine I give it to you and that's the simple dedication of Mitzvahs my seus the the physical deed you know I can't get their intellectual I can't get their emotionally but I can do something for you something fourth of them is theirs nefesh ultimately this is the ultimate mistress nefesh which is the desire to become one with hashem to lose oneself in hashem and to really find oneself by losing oneself which is similar to the desire that a huset has to be close to one's rabbit and that brings us to the connection of this to the alte data after that Mendel went to Eric to throw when the alter rebbe would be yearning to be close again with his rabbit that forever would sing this negan as an expression of his desire to be close to the member horrible [Music] yeah [Music] did boy [Music] you don't know you No [Music] my [Music] whoa whoa [Music] my yeah [Music] oh yeah [Music] oh yeah [Music] you