שאמיל Shamil by Natan Wishedski

Shamil – Before dawn on Simchat Torah of 1958 (5719), the Lubavitcher Rebbe sat in his beit midrash in Brooklyn and told his chassidim about Shamil. Shamil was the leader of a guerilla war against Russia in the Caucasus Mountains. Despite Russia’s immense military power, it couldn’t vanquish him and his cohorts: the Caucasus warriors were up in the mountains and the Russians were down below. So the Russians finally changed tactics and offered Shamil a peace agreement – but when he came down to them, they arrested and exiled him.
While Shamil was in exile, he composed a niggun that in the beginning expresses longing for the magnificent past on the mountains, and at the end it is full of hope for return to power.
Jews who heard the niggun adopted it and adapted Shamil’s story to the story of the neshama, the soul, which came down from Heaven; on one hand it misses its past, but on the other, it is certain that the future will be no less sublime.
When the Rebbe completed his story, he taught the chassidim the niggun, unknown to them until then.