Yaale/Rechovos

This vintage Chassidic melody was composed by R’ Shalom Charitonov and sung in two versions: without words, and to the hymn Yaaleh that is recited on the High Holy Days. The Chassidim of the city of Rechovot adapted this niggun to the verses regarding the third well that our ancestor Yitzchak built, which was called Rechovot.

וַיַּעְתֵּק מִשָּׁם וַיַּחְפֹּר בְּאֵר אַחֶרֶת וְלֹא רָבוּ עָלֶיהָ” וַיִּקְרָא שְׁמָהּ רְחֹבוֹת וַיֹּאמֶר כִּי עַתָּה הִרְחִיב יְהוָה לָנוּ וּפָרִינוּ בָאָרֶץ.”

בראשית כ”ו, כ”ב

“He relocated from there and dug another well; and they did not quarrel over it, so he called its name Rechovot, and said, ‘for now G-d has granted us ample space, and we will be fruitful in the land.'”