By COLlive reporter
The city of Nikolaev (Mykolaiv) in southern Ukraine, the birthplace of the Rebbe, is uniquely rich with centuries of Chasidic history, and was home to many great Chassidim.
The Rebbe’s own maternal grandfather, Rabbi Meir Shlomo Yanovsky, served as its chief rabbi. The Rebbe lived there for the first seven years of his life and continued to visit his grandparents periodically in the years following.
The heartbeat of Nikolaev was its famed chasidic composers, and the various nigunim they wrote. Prominent Chassidim of Nikolaev included the Charitanow brothers, Reb Osher Grossman (“Nikolaever”) and the Althoiz family, baalei neginah who composed and shared unique tunes still sung in Lubavitch today.
The Rebbe had a special fondness for these songs of his youth, singing them on many occasions at farbrengens and teaching some of them on Simchas Torah.
In connection with Gimmel Tammuz, JEM has published an album of The Rebbe Sings (Nigunei Hisva’adus), dedicated entirely to the Nigunim of Nikolaev.
This is the second album of “The Rebbe Sings” collection recently published on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, 24Six.
AUDIO:
Click here for The Rebbe Sings — Album One from JEM, currently playing on Spotify and all major music apps.
Thank you jem for posting nigunim on 24Six.app, the new Jewish Spotify. It’s great to be able to provide our children with access to the Rebbe’s nigunim without needing the other apps.
For those who haven’t heard of it before, check it out at 24six.app.