Lesser Known Version of the Chabad Pesach Nigun

By COLlive reporter

Rabbi Moshe Weinfeld, a baal menagen in Toronto, Canada, has released a lesser-known version of the classic Chabad Pesach Nigun sung by Chabad Chasidim, “Mimitzrayim Gealtanu.”

Weinfeld, an expert in Niggunim, says he based the new composition on a combination of two versions of the same song.

The first, relatively unknown slow part, was found on an old recording by the famed baal menagen R’ Zalman Levin obm of Kfar Chabad, Israel. The second part is the classic faster tune that is more familiar and is sung by Chassidim of today.

“The world of Niggunim in Chassidus is very deep, and when we sing the nigun in the original form it really pierces the soul,” Rabbi Weinfeld told COLlive.

Weinfeld says this may be the original version that Chasidim sang decades ago.

“It’s a big possibility that Chassidim in Russia used to sing the Nigun this way,” Weinfeld says.

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