RE: A Ladier Chabadnitze

[Mel Korn <mkorn...>]

Reading your lovely explanation...and particularly the words to the niggun,
reminded me of a magical experience in April 1982. A dear friend had become
a Ba'al Teshuva through the Chabad movement and invited me to join him at a
Fabrengen for the birthday of the late Rebbe Schneerson z"l. I was not nor
am I now a frum person, however the experience of being in a room with
several thousand loving Chasidim, standing on tiered seats, singing a newly
commissioned niggun in honour of their Rebbe's birthday, as the they swayed
in unison, was absolutely mystical. Thank you for rekindling this memory.

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[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Sam Weiss
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:04 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: A Ladier Chabadnitze

At 05:12 AM 3/3/03, Cor van Sliedregt wrote:
>In the collection of A.Z. Idelsohn I found a melody named "A Ladier
>Chabadnitze" Who can explain, translate this title ?

Chabad is the nickname of the Lubavitcher Chasidic movement.  A
"Chabadnitze" was a term (hardly heard anymore) for a Lubavitcher nigun.
Lyady (also Lyadi, Liadi) was the Belarus village of the first Lubavitcher
Rebbe, Shneur Zalman of Lyady (1745-1813).  The melody you are refering to
(#154 in Volume X of Idelsohn's Thesaurus) is one of the 10 core Chabad
melodies attributed to Shneur Zalman. (Another one is the famous tune known
as "Der Rebbe's Nigun".)  Therefore, the translation of "A Ladier
Chabadnitze" would be "A Chabad Melody of the Lyader Rebbe".  This nigun,
by the way, is also sung to the words
Ovinu malkeinu, ovinu oto;
Ovinu malkeinu, eyn lonu melech elo oto.
(Our Father, our King, You are our Father;
We have no king but You.)


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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ


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