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Video: Slovakians Delight in Niggunei Chabad

Rabbi Baruch Myers is the Chabad emissary to Slovakia, as well as a talented pianist. At a recent live music event, he joined three non-Jewish musicians and together they performed stirring Chabad Niggunim to the (mostly non-Jewish) crowd’s delight.

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  • What a rare treat this is!

    As a conservatory-trained classical musician who later came to Yiddishkeit, I have to say that this is some of the best musical arranging and performing of nigunim that I have heard in a very long time.

    This is an unusual combination of instruments, and the arranger draws upon some very creative uses of the various techniques for these instruments: harmonics, unisons and single-instrument chords, etc.

    I would love to know:
    1) Who wrote the arrangements of these nigunim for this ensemble? and
    2) More about Rabbi Myers’ background in music, along with his shlichus. He is not only clearly accomplished as a pianist, but also as a collaborative musician — two separate talents/skills that not every player has!

    It is clear that the audience is also blown away, and this is no small accomplishment, since European audiences are generally quite experienced concert-goers.

  • ופרצתה ימה וקדמה צופנה ונגבה

    this is truly amazing i have to say people look at that moshiach is here just a few more mitzvos to grab and that it dance sing we did it way to go!!!!!

  • Language Barrier

    He has the crowd in stitches. Can’t help wondering what he’s telling them.

  • i remember him as a bachur

    Rabbi jacobs studied in juilliard school of music and at tomchei temimim :) he was a shliach as a bachur in argintina as well

  • Go Slovakia Shluchim!

    The other Shliach in Slovakia, Rabbi Zev Stiefel, has an operatic voice and is invited to sing in Yiddish, Hebrew & Slovak at many public events in Slovakia. Truly a musical duet!

  • Amazing

    I watched this video and was literally mesmerized by it. Such a fantastic performance. Truly special.
    You can take this show around the world.