Video: Young Shliach Performs ‘Rostover Niggun’

Chaim Chitrik, a young Shliach living in Istanbul, Turkey, performs the stirring Niggun Rostov of the Rebbe Rashab on violin. One of the more serious of the Chabad melodies, Niggun Rostov is characterized by its deep feeling and soul searching expression.

The 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe “Rashab”, Rabbi Sholom DovBer, was fond of this melody and sang it often. During World-War I, he left his native city of Lubavitch and settled in Rostov (in southern Russia), where he resided until his passing in 5680 (1920). It is therefore known as the Rostover Nigun-melody. The melody is usually sung before the Rebbe began his Torah or Chassidic discourses.

9 Comments

  • 49 yr in the hood

    wow very gifted boy , from a gr8 chasidesha
    family , my teacher is smiling from above
    REB YEHUDA OBM

  • Anonymous

    BH
    The violin, the piano and the written introduction to this video served to open the holy world of spiritual truth, as if generation after generation were escorting the Holy Torah or maamar down into this world! Tears of exquisite joy . . . THANK YOU SO MUCH. May
    Hash-m bentch each of you to be inscribed and sealed for a good and a sweet year.?

  • M.Z.

    Beautiful.
    May it be His will that Zeh hakatan Gadol yechyeh. Gadol in torah, avodah and gemilus chassadim, and be a source of chassidishe nachas to his parents and klal yisroel