The Beinoni Nigun The Beinoni Nigun

Benshimon LIVE ft Lipa Schmeltzer & chazzan Aryeh Leib Hurwitz “Beinoni” is the name of a classic Chabad melody (nigun), composed by Reb Aharon Charitonov of Nikolayev, Ukraine. The sixth rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950), especially cherished this song and gave it this name, saying that this particular melody—of all those in the voluminous Chabad repertoire—is the musical expression of the beinoni’s character. To this day, the “Beinoni” is the nigun that is most closely associated with Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak.