Dokshitzer Nigun

Chassidim brought to Lubavitch tunes from various localities, which were called after their places of origin. This melody was composed by the Chabad disciples of Dokshitz, a small chassidic town in the Vilna district.

It is a lively tune of four stanzas. The joy and gaiety increase in intensity from stanza to stanza. This melody is often sung at chassidic gatherings.

Composed or Taught By
Chassidim of Dokshitz

Vocalists
Zalman Levin

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Music notes courtesy of Kehot Publication Society and Chabad Melodies by Eli Lipsker and Velvel Pasternak.

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Posted: Feb 22, 2012

the echoic connects within music

This is wonderful.Certainly about JOY and it's hard to listen without tapping, dancing, or imagining oneself in dance.

It seems that niggun particularly access a spiritual place because they are so filled with echoic connectivity, as in the refrain, that is repetitive and often builds. This of course is a prominent feature of most music. We get these repeats, and we have names for these in symphonic music. They are expected with lingering melodic lines.

The word in Hebrew echad or echod, depending on proununciation, has, for me, that echo of echod, as within the word echod is echo itself, a reverberating connectivity. When we stand in a place that has this acoustic ability, we hear from all sides, North, South, East, and West, the echo of song, or whatever we put into that space, and I think this is so totally redolent of what is Divine, that answer, that comes from all places, all corners of whatever space we inhabit. As in G_d is everywhere, and in niggun so present

Posted By ruth housman, marshfield hills, ma

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