This melody has always felt like home.

The Baal Shem Tov Niggun is attributed to the founder of the Chassidic movement—a spiritual pioneer whose teachings and melodies have carried generations through darkness into light. I’ve always felt a deep connection to the Baal Shem Tov, not least because I carry his name. This niggun has accompanied me in countless moments of quiet return, inner stillness, and spiritual searching.

There’s something deeply poetic to me about these melodies, composed in Eastern Europe during times of great challenge for our people, now making a literal aliyah—redeemed and ready to be sung again. It felt only right to include this niggun in a project centered around yearning, redemption, and rebuilding.

This release is part of a broader collaborative album project with Thank You Hashem—music born from longing, faith, and the hope of a rebuilt Beit HaMikdash. These are songs where prayer and melody become one. Songs that call us back—to Hashem, to each other, and to the sacred.


TYH Nation Presents
1: House of Prayer
2: Baal Shem Tov Niggun
Israel Portnoy

TYH Music/Mendy Portnoy/Farbrengable Studios

CREDITS:

Composed and Written by The Baal Shem Tov
Produced & Arranged by Mendy Portnoy
Executive Production: The Blumstein Brothers

Piano/Keys: Mendy Portnoy
Guitars: Noam "Hargol" Burg & Israel Portnoy
French Horns: Dani Flam
Nay: Eitam Ben Ya'acov
Backing Vocals: Israel Portnoy & Mendy Portnoy
Kids Choir: Shir Vashevach
Mixed & Mastered by Ronen Hillel

Album Artwork: Yehuda Raice

Video: Shai Barak