{"id":53874,"date":"2020-05-19T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/le-hassidisme-et-ses-musiques\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:36:57","slug":"le-hassidisme-et-ses-musiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/le-hassidisme-et-ses-musiques\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasidism and music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chasidism, the mystic Jewish movement born in Eastern Europe in the middle of the 18th century, enabled the emergence of a lot of music aimed to transcend the impurities of this world&#8230; \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the middle of the 18th century, the misery and persecutions suffered by the Jews in Eastern Europe led them into a deep withdrawal. Following the disillusionment born from the apostasy of the false messiah Sabbata\u00ef Tsevi, many Jews yielded to a surrounding mysticism leading to the emergence of the chasidic movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ben_eliezer_225_px_vertic.jpg\" alt=\"ben_eliezer_225_px_vertic.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28692\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chasidism was created in Podolia by <strong>Isra\u00ebl ben Eliezer Baal Shem Tov<\/strong> (1700-1760). Regarded at the outset as a reaction to the bleak intellectualism of rabbis, this popular movement preached the accession to the divine by joy (<em>simcha<\/em>) and enthusiasm (<em>hitlavout<\/em>) in prayer. To this doctrine, inspired by the kabbalistic movement of Safed, one can add the concept of <em>deveqout<\/em> (\u201cattachment\u201d) which marks a state of total adherence to God in all the daily activities of life. Thus the c<em>hasid<\/em> serves his creator even when he eats or drinks, provided it is done in a spirit of holiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although it was opposed by the official authorities of the Jewish community (the <em>mitnagdim<\/em>), the chasidic movement grew quickly: we believe it had conquered over half of the Eastern Jewish population at the beginning of the 19th century. At the head of the c<em>hasidim<\/em> \u201crules\u201d a <em>tsadik<\/em> who holds a real court. The role of a <em>tsadik<\/em>, passed on first from the master to the most prestigious of his disciples, became progressively hereditary, to the point that it created dynastic lineages. Each dynasty \u2013 generally named like the town where the ancestors established their court \u2013 developed original traditions; however, all of them kept the usage of the Yiddish language and of several common practices. Among them, one can find dancing and singing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dynastie_hassidique_de_gour_300_px_larg.jpg\" alt=\"dynastie_hassidique_de_gour_300_px_larg.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28694\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Baal Shem Tov and his disciples considered music and dancing as a way to rise the soul above the world\u2019s impurities. During Shabbat meals, they sung <em>zemirot <\/em>(domestic canticles) and often invented new melodies. Shortly after the Baal Shem Tov\u2019s death, the creation and the singing of these <em>nigunim<\/em> (melodies, tunes) became an essential pillar of chasidic mysticism. In the chasidic approach, the <em>nigun<\/em> goes beyond language: it is able to express the unspeakable. A chasidic saying claims \u201csilence is better than speech, but singing is better than silence\u201d. For this reason, the <em>nigun<\/em> expresses all the human emotions. Meditative or exalted, sad or joyous, its singing goes with the swaying of the body, chest and arms; it is sometimes added by handclapping. These body movements, supported by a total involvement of the <em>chasid<\/em> in his melody, can lead the singer to a true state of trance.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/partition_baal_shem_-_ernest_bloch_250px_vertic.jpg\" alt=\"partition_baal_shem_-_ernest_bloch_250px_vertic.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28698\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The majority of these <em>nigunim<\/em> are without words. The text has little importance; generally written after the melody, it is often reduced to a simple word or short onomatopoeias such as \u201cdoy doy doy\u201d or \u201cYa-ba-bam\u201d. The essence of the <em>nigun<\/em> lies in fact in the <em>kavanah<\/em> (the intention) that emerges in the singer\u2019s heart; whatever melody or text is used. Such a philosophy explains to a certain extent the borrowings of melodies from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Romania or Turkey that abound in this repertoire. One can also find tunes of Napoleonian marches, a proof of the great hope felt by the Jews after the entrance of the French troupes into Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chasidic musical repertoire is thus extremely multiple in styles. Based on the blending of Jewish and non-Jewish melodies, vocal and instrumental, metric and of free rhythms, it doesn\u2019t show any unique characteristic. It is thus very hard to classify it. According to Andr\u00e9 Hajdu and Yaakov Mazor (1972, E.J. 7, 1424-1425), the <em>chasidim<\/em>, themselves, number three big categories of <em>nigunim<\/em> :<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"243\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cd_143_couv_220_px_vertic.jpg\" alt=\"cd_143_couv_220_px_vertic.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28700\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Table tunes (<em>tish nigunim<\/em>). They used to be sung at the <em>tsadik<\/em>\u2018s table before or after the meals. They are quite long tunes, rather meditative, with free or metrical rhythms. Most of them don\u2019t have any lyrics ; the rare texts used come for most of them from the Shabbat\u2019s liturgy, and in particular the <em>zemirot<\/em> (canticles).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dance tunes. These tunes have generally a periodic and symmetric structure; they are often composed of a small number of melodic patterns (two or three in general) with simple variations. Approximately half of these <em>nigunim<\/em> include a short biblical or liturgical verse put on the melody in a more or less repetitive way.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The instrumental music concern waltzes, marches or particular tunes like those performed during the Meron pilgrimage in Upper Galilee.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/juifs-hassidiques-dans-le-quartier-de-williamsburg_300_px_larg.jpg\" alt=\"juifs-hassidiques-dans-le-quartier-de-williamsburg_300_px_larg.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-28702\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than two centuries, the different chasidic dynasties created and transmitted many <em>nigunim<\/em>. Some were written down; others were recorded in the beginning of the century. At the peak of the chasidic movement, instrumental ensembles, singers and composers of <em>nigunim<\/em> were continuously connected to the <em>tsadikim<\/em>\u2018s court. <em>Chazanim<\/em> (cantors) were hired to teach new melodies to the pilgrims who, on a holiday period, came in number to listen to the rabbis teachings. The Second World War and the murdering of East European Jews put an end to this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the main chasidic movements are settled in USA and Israel. Their musical repertoire has greatly evolved: it became more standard and poorer because of its diffusion through the media (concerts, discs, radios, etc.) and because of the use of Western musical notation, became more standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : Herv\u00e9 Roten, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/musiques-liturgiques-juives\/\">Musiques liturgiques juives \u2013 Parcours et escales<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/chassidic-music\/\">Listen to the playlist Chasidic music (First part)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/chassidic-music-2\/\">Listen to the playlist Chasidic music (Second part)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/chasidic-music-3rd-part\/\">Listen to the playlist Chasidic music (Third part)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il\/content\/hasidic-niggun-sung-hasidim\">Purchase the CD The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim published by the JMRC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AUDIO-PLAYER-1024x133.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AUDIO-PLAYER-1024x133.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AUDIO-PLAYER-300x39.png 300w, https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AUDIO-PLAYER-768x100.png 768w, https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AUDIO-PLAYER-600x78.png 600w, https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AUDIO-PLAYER.png 1210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a 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