Listen: As part of the ‘Tzamah’ project, which brings traditional Chabad niggunim to the wider Israeli public, singer Benny Friedman performed a ‘Niggun Simcha’ composed by R’ Aharon Charitonov.
Listen: As part of the ‘Tzamah’ project, which brings traditional Chabad niggunim to the wider Israeli public, singer Benny Friedman performed a ‘Niggun Simcha’ composed by R’ Aharon Charitonov.
In the repertoire of Chabad niggunim, a special place is reserved for “Niggunei Simcha.”
This niggun was composed by R’ Aharon Charitonov from the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev. There was a vibrant Chabad community in this city, where the Lubavitcher Rebbe was born.
R’ Aharon, the town’s shochet, was a genuine oved and a devoted chossid of the Rebbe Rashab and Frierdiker Rebbe. He died in 1933.
As a member of the Charitonov family, who were he composed a number of niggunim, among them Niggunei Divekus, Niggunei Hisvaadus, and a number of Niggunei Simcha.
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