Rare recording: Simchat Torah laps with the Lubavitcher Rebbe | Listen

October 9, 2020   

Chabad is excited:  45 years later, a recording of the Simchat Torah circlings in 1976 was discovered in the Lubavitcher Rebbe's seminary. The Rebbe was recorded by a Jew who came from the Land of Israel, and did not observe a 'second Yom Tov' in New York. The recording was given to the Chabad media company JEM. A short portion of the recording was published last year, but half an hour of the original recording is published, and improvements have even been made to the recording quality. The Lubavitcher Rebbe's circlings lasted for hours and were characterized by extraordinary joy, as the Rebbe encouraged the Hasidim to sing with rapid hand movements.

Lapses of the Night of Mercy:

0:00 - The Rebbe says the verse "You have shown" (part of it).

0:16 - The audience responds to the verse because from Zion

0:25 - Singing, save your people.

2:25 - The Rebbe says the verse "You have shown."

2:53 - The Rebbe says the verse that from Zion (his portion)

3:05 - The audience responds to the verse, "And O Lord, your seed!"

3:19 - The Rebbe says the verse: "And God will make your seed a second time."'

3:50 - The Rebbe says the verse "And God will make your seed" a third time.'

4:22 - Singing and a Breakthrough

6:13 - Singing the well-known lap melody

10:35 - Ministers give advice

19:39 - Singing on the Rock

20:22 - They sing to you, O Lord, my refuge.

23:04 - Singing and all the horns

23:47 - Ministers and Gods of the East

26:00 - Singing the famous lap melody

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