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The Niggun of Four Stanzas or the Niggun of Daled Bavos ("Niggun of Four Gates"), is a wordless tune of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim, composed by the first Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. [1] The Niggun of Four Stanzas is of a slower tempo and in a minor key, characteristic of meditative "dveikus niggunim."
Chabad niggunim were either composed or taught by the Rebbe of Chabad or their Hassidim. [1] Niggunim are used to aid for meditation during Chasidic prayer or Torah study, as well as during farbrengens. [2] some of these ancient Chabad melodies have recently made their way into mainstream music. [3]
This differentiation enables the intellectual aims of Chabad to be holistically united with emotional joy and soul-searching. The second Rebbe of Chabad, Dovber Schneuri, distinguished between mainstream Hasidic "enthusiasm", and the Chabad aim of intellectually created "ecstasy". Enthusiasm expresses itself in emotional exuberance, reflected ...
Chabad adherents switch between standard English and a "Jewish English" which is a Jewish variety of English with influences from Yiddish, textual Hebrew and modern Hebrew. [ 7 ] Song and music – Like many other Hasidic groups, Chabad attaches importance to singing Chabad Hasidic nigunim (melodies), usually without words, and following ...
The Chabad movement was established after the First Partition of Poland in the town of Liozno, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Liozna, Belarus), in 1775, by Shneur Zalman, [4] a student of Dov Ber of Mezeritch, the successor to Hasidism's founder, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh MSc Personal life Born (1944-11-14) 14 November 1944 (age 80) St. Louis, Missouri Spouse Romemia nee Segal Parents Shimshon Ya'akov (father) Bryna Malka (mother) Religious life Religion Judaism Yeshiva Tom VaDa'at (president) Organisation Derech Chaim Movement (leader ...
HaAderet v'HaEmunah (Hebrew: האדרת והאמונה, 'The Glory and the Faith'), commonly referred to as LeChai Olamim (Hebrew: לחי עולמים), is a piyyut, or Jewish liturgical poem, sung or recited during Shacharit of Yom Kippur in virtually all Ashkenazic communities, and on Shabbat mornings in Chassidic communities.
Chabad.org has a Jewish knowledge base which includes over 100,000 articles of information ranging from basic Judaism to Hasidic philosophy taught from the Chabad point of view. The major categories are the human being, God and man, concepts and ideas, the Torah, the physical world, the Jewish calendar, science and technology, people and events ...