Shabbos Zemiros (Part 2): Shalom Aleichem...

And now for the second installment on the Rebbe's Shabbos Zemiros... 

Shabbos Zemrios (Part 1): A Gitten Shabbos

There have been a number of requests to do a mini-series on the Rebbe's Shabbos zemiros, not specifically his own, rather the nusach that he uses.

Maoz Tzur

The Divrei Chaim lit in this menorah for 14 years.

The nigun the Rebbe, shlit"a, uses for Maoz Tzur is the same one his father, Rebbe Yaakov Yisroel, would sing. Although the nigun is sung in today's Bobov, I heard from the Rebbe that it comes from earlier than the Kedushas Tzion, and possibly even back to the Sanz of the Divrei Chaim.

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The Rebbe's Hallel (audio)

Below is a short snippet from the Rebbe's Hallel from Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5772.

The Rebbe's Havdala (audio)

By popular request, here is a recording of the Rebbe, shlit"a, making Havdala. Starting with G-t Fin Avrohom, Havdala and then the traditional piyut, "Hamavdil", customarily sung every Motzei Shabbos following Havdala. DOWNLOAD

The Rebbe's Eicha

In lieu of a more current recording, here is the Rebbe, shlit"a, reading Eicha in 5765. At about 24 minutes on the time index, the Rebbe is saying the pesukim in the third perek that begin with "kuf" - "Koli shamatah, al taalem aznecha..."

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Bobover Rebbe's Kinah

As in many kehillos, after we say all the kinnos, the Rebbe, shlit"a, says the Bobover Rebbe's kinah for the Holocaust.

From 5766:

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From this year (5771):

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The kinah sung to an appropriate Tisha B'Av Nigun from Bobov:

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V'Haarev Na

I noticed in the weekly summary that the CBJ Halacha Program is currently dealing with the halachos of Birchas HaTorah. It mentions there the malchokes about saying "V'haarev na" with or without a "vav" and whether or not to answer "amen". Seemingly, the two should go together. If one holds that v'haarev is a continuation of the first berachah, then one should not answer amen and the nusach should be "haarev na" without a "vav". If we hold that v'haarev is its own berachah then we would say amen to the first berachah but then the next berachah shouldn't begin with the a "vav" (normally used to connect one thing to the next).

Nusach: Weekday Shmone Esrei

Shemoneh Esrei from the Radviller Siddur

I have received a number of requests to post about the differences between the Siddur Tefila Yeshara and the actual nusach of the Rebbe, shlit"a.

The first thing we need to remember is that while the Rebbe, shlit"a, does daven from the Tefila Yeshara siddur, it is impossible to clarify the actual nusach of Hornosteiple in any conclusive manner.

There is a letter in the back of Pele Yoetz from the Rebbe Reb Mottele, zy"a, to his youngest son Reb Burich Duvid'l, asking him not to forsake his nusach in favor of the nusach of the Baal Hatanya and that he should rather daven according to either the Siddur Nehora or Siddur Radvil.

Now, I have toyed excessively with possible theories as to what the Rebbe Reb Mottele could have meant when he wrote "either Nehora or Radvil", since they are two distinct siddurim, the differences between them vastly outweighing the similarities. While the Siddur Nehora is basically Ashkenaz, the Radviller nusach is clearly a Chassidishe nusach (although it too resembles Ashkenaz to a much greater degree than other Chassidishe siddurim).

For the sake of getting to the point, I have kept out a lot of details and history. Maybe I'll get to write a post about the whole topic in greater depth...

We start with Siddur Tefila Yeshara (Radvil), printed for the second time in 1820 (date of the first print is up for discussion).

It was printed a number times after that and eventually found its way to Barditchev  in 1894 where it was combined with the by then famous commentary Keser Nehora (which was previously printed in a different siddur). The siddur we have today is called Siddur Tefila Yeshara v'Keser Nehora Hashalem Bardichev and it was printed with some amendments in Premishla in 1929. Until the new edition came out this past Chanuka, all prints of this siddur were copies of the Premishla edition.

Without further ado, let us begin. 

Weekday Shmone Esrei (the number connotes which bracha):
1) same as printed.
2) "ורב להושיע" also in all three tefilos, not just Mincha.
3) same, in Kedusha we say "לעומתם ברוך יאמרו" as is customary in Chernobyl. The chazzan doesn't say "לדור ודור נגיד גדלך" rather ואתה קדוש
4) The Rebbe Reb Leibele's son, Reb Nuchim from Tel Aviv, wrote that in Hornosteiple they said "חכמה בינה ודעת". However, in Pele Yoetz (Parshas Vayigash) and in the Siddur Radvil the nusach is "דעה בינה והשכל". The Rebbe, shlit"a, says דעה בינה והשכל
5) same.
6) same, without what's in the parenthesis.
7) same, without what's in the parenthesis.
8) same. (9) same. (10) same. (11) same.
12) same. In the letter from Reb Nuchim he mentions some differences regarding this bracha but the Rebbe, shlit"a, davens like in the siddur.
13) same.
14) same (k'minhag ashkenaz).
15) same.
16) שמע קולנו ה' אלקינו אב הרחמן חוס ורחם עלינו
17) same. (18) same.
19) We say שים שלום by all the tefilos. 


That's all for now. I would appreciate any corrections or additional information. Thanks!