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Popular singer Eli Marcus joins Rabbi Taub to discuss the stories behind some of their favorite chasidic melodies.
This niggun traces back to the times of the Alter Rebbe and is one of the earliest Chabad niggunim. It was heard in the home of the Rebbe's father, R' Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, and transcribed by Israeli pianist Verdina Shlonksy.
Rabbi Shais Taub and Eli Marcus talk about some of the background and meaning of this song.
The Alter Rebbe composed this short song of "running and returning" to the words of two different Biblical verses. "As the deer pants thirstily by the water brook..." "...and you shall place them as frontlets between your eyes."
Rabbi Shais Taub and Eli Marcus discuss the background and meaning of this timeless melody.