Watch: Newly digitized footage shows a performance of the "Hachana Niggun" by a Jewish Russian folk group in Minsk, Belarus. Video
Watch: Newly digitized footage shows a performance of the "Hachana Niggun" by a Jewish Russian folk group in Minsk, Belarus. Video
In 1992, Zalman Goldstein and Mendel Gurevitch were doing Shlichus in Minsk, Belarus, during which they organized a Lag BaOmer musical celebration for local Jews.
Newly digitized footage from VHS shows the performance of the Chabad “Hachana Niggun” by a Jewish Russian folk group.
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Thank you for digitizing and sharing this performance!
Notice the Soviet Hammer and Sickle on the curtains, which means this was in a former communist theater. Who would imagine that a couple of bochrim would ever be able to gather 1,000 Jews there and publicly perform a Chabad tune.
Even though it’s been 27 years since, I don’t think the miracle has truly sunk in yet.
And if THAT could change in more or less an instant, it gives us hope for the future geulah also coming in an instant.
Thanks for sharing. I love that they sang too!
Played nicely.
HOWEVER,
עס פעלט די חסידישע הגריש וואס קומט מיט.
While this is the niggun that we sing before maamim are recited, this is not “the” niggun hachono, which is sung before the arba babos.
Enjoyed this clip very much.
It’s a nigun before a chasid says over a maamer it’s called r David Raskins nigun.