5. "Ahavat 'Olam"

^{Vizhnitz Choir with Moshe ("Mona'') Rosenbloom's orchestra, conducted by Binyomin Hartman, wedding banquet of the Vizhnitz Rebbe's granddaughter, Benei Berak, 11 February 1987.}

A niggun of unknown origin. A cantor and badkhn named Yehezkel Klagsbald (1904- 1993) brought it to the Vizhnitz court in Benei Berak in the late 1970s. The present Rebbe, R. Moshe Yehoshua Hager (b. 1916), ordered him to teach the young students to sing this niggun as well as other niggunim. The conductor of the choir, Binyomin Hartman, arranged the niggun for two and three voices with the help of the Israeli conductor and arranger Moshe ("Mona") Rosenbloom. In this polyphonic version "Ahavat 'olam" is similar in style to compositions by the well-known Hasidic cantor Zeydl Rovner, some of whose works are regularly sung by the choir at the Vizhnitz court in Benei Berak.

The niggun "Ahavat 'olam" (the words are from the Evening Service) is associated in the Vizhnitz community with festivals and occasions linked with the Torah, such as Simhat Torah and Shavu'ot. On these occasions the choir sings it at the Tish held at the close of the festival, but only if specially requested to do so by the Rebbe. Sometimes the Rebbe intervenes and signals the congregation (either directly or through the menagnim) to join the choir in singing one section of which he is particularly fond.