תקעו בחודש Tik’u Bachodesh by Natan Wishedski

Tik’u Bachodesh (“Sound out the shofar on the first of the month”) – This is a niggun that tells the story of a simple chassid who returned to his village after spending Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur with the Rebbe somewhere in the plains of Ukraine. The man was simple minded, but the Lubavitch fire burned in his heart. When he was sitting with his friends with some schnapps and herring he was asked: “Nu, tell us, what happened at the Rebbe’s? Tell over a ma’amar in chassidut, maybe a word of Torah or a talk that the Rebbe gave.” But the chassid’s mouth was sealed. Not only did he not understand anything from what the Rebbe had said – he had barely heard anything with all the crowds and the pushing in the Rebbe’s beit midrash.
This pained him; maybe it bothered him, but that was not the main thing. The main thing was that he had been with the Rebbe; it was as if his soul had been refueled, had been fed all the spiritual energy that it needed for the coming year.
While they were pressuring him to say something, he began to sing a somber niggun, which tells the story of the trip and the arrival, the joy and the pain, the bitterness and the yearning. A niggun that tells of the connection between the Rebbe and the chassid. The niggun has six words in it, six words that begin the three deep and sublime ma’amarim of chassidut told over by the Rebbe during the Yamim Nora’im: “Tik’u bachodesh” (“Sound out the shofar on the first day of the month”), “Bachodesh hashvi’i” (“In the seventh month”) and “Shuva Yisrael (“Return, Israel”).” This Jew had not grasped the content of the ma’marim, but he definitely had grasped their essence, and he was expressing it in the niggun of “Tik’u bachodesh, Bachodesh Hashvi’i, Shuva Yisrael.”
There is no comfort offered in the niggun, but there is a soul connection.