The Ba'al Shem Tov famously said that music is the vehicle that transports us to where we want to be. A niggun is a wordless devotional melody, a genre developed by the saintly Ba'al Shem Tov and his followers, who came to be known as Hassidim. A wordless melody is like a mantra -it bypasses the brain and enters teh heart directly. Like scat, it frees the performer from the limitations imposed by lyrics. By singing a niggun, the soul of the worshipper is said to be freed from the confines of the
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