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Tuesday, Parshas Va'eschanan — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

In the morning the Rebbe entered for Shacharis in the beis medrash of Kahal Yireim – Beis Elimelech at around 7:30.

Before davening, the Rebbe put on tefillin with the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Dovid Mordechai Schwartz (Williamsburg).
Baal Tefillah: HaRav R' Yoel Berish Friedlander (Kiryas Joel).

After davening, a lechayim gathering took place with the bar mitzvah bochur in the hall of the beis medrash. A lovely conversation developed about the Gaon HaKadosh, the Kol Aryeh zt"l, whose grandson the bar mitzvah bochur is.
The Rebbe drank a lechayim and wished the bar mitzvah bochur and the whole family well, after which the Rebbe recited Tefillas HaDerech.

At around 9:15 the Rebbe shlit"a left his holy residence on the way to the Laconia airport in Gilford, New Hampshire, where the private plane from New York had just landed. The several accompanying mekuravim, among them HaGaon Rabbi Av Beis Din of Sighet shlit"a and HaGaon Rabbi Av Beis Din of Monsey shlit"a, bid him farewell. On the plane, before takeoff, the rabbonim of the bakeries of our holy kehilla from Williamsburg and Kiryas Joel, who were in Idaho for the 'second wheat cutting' for the matzah production of our holy kehilla for Pesach 5786, IY"H, on a holy mission from the Rebbe shlit"a, connected with the Rebbe by phone.
The Rebbe heard a report from the wheat field, which was preparing to begin cutting the wheat in the coming hours (the local time is two hours behind), and the Rebbe gave several instructions and guidelines and bestowed his holy blessing.

At around 10:40 the Rebbe's private plane took off together with his son HaGaon Rabbi Av Beis Din of Sighet shlit"a, HaGaon Rabbi Av Beis Din and Rosh Mesivta of Monsey shlit"a and several mekuravim, on the way to Postville, Iowa, to visit the mehudar shechita of our holy kehilla for cattle. During the flight the Rebbe engaged in a longer conversation with the accompanying people about the differences and hiddurim of shechita over the past years, from the old country until here in America and to this day.
The Rebbe's plane landed at around 11:45 (local time) at the local airport in Wisconsin, and the Rebbe traveled about half an hour to Postville, to the slaughterhouse.

Upon arriving at the slaughterhouse, the Rebbe shlit"a warmly greeted HaGaon Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandl shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Nitra Monsey – the rav hamachshir of the slaughterhouse, and HaGaon R' Efraim Shimon Leichtag shlit"a – dayan and moreh tzedek of our beis medrash on 15th Ave., Boro Park, who is there these days on behalf of our holy kehilla to supervise the shechita.

The Rebbe immediately went into the slaughterhouse, where the Rebbe surveyed the entire plant from beginning to end, examining every detail for an extended period of nearly four hours!

Beginning with the entire order of the lung examinations, where the Rebbe stood for an extended time and examined all the details on the spot, and then over to the shechita area, where the Rebbe inspected the knives of the shochtim, and greatly admired the tremendous hiddurim of the knives, which are entirely at the highest standards, and the chumra of a dry check (bedikas yaves), for which an extra appointed examiner is stationed each time, and then looked over the mehudar shechita as it takes place, and continued to observe how the parts of the animal are placed on the chain as it proceeds through the plant, and the special chumra that a Jew marks the numbers on the parts of the animal,
after which the Rebbe continued to the remaining parts of the plant, where the Rebbe looked over the nikkur (deveining) apparatus with all its hiddurim for an extended time, and from there to the areas of salting, rinsing and washing with all the chumros and hiddurim that were introduced by the Rebbe shlit"a, and so on through all the parts of the kashering process up to the packaging.

After arduous work and physical exertion of a full 4 hours, the Rebbe shlit"a went over to the shochtim's beis medrash to rest for several minutes, where the Rebbe, full of emotion and joy, expressed his heartfelt feelings about the fact that we have, Baruch Hashem, merited to establish these tremendous hiddurim in the slaughterhouse and to bring up the standard for kosher meat among Chassidic Jews, and expressed the great joy felt each time one comes to visit the shechita, and especially praised the devotion of the distinguished baalei batim of the Meal Mart company in following all the chumros and hiddurim required according to the instructions of the Rebbe shlit"a.

The Rebbe shlit"a wished the shochtim and mashgichim abundant blessings, left the slaughterhouse and immediately traveled to the airport, where the Rebbe boarded the private plane on the way back to the vacation place in Bethlehem, New Hampshire.

Before the plane took off, the Rebbe shlit"a connected by phone with the distinguished donors Mrs. Rispler tichye and her son, the esteemed philanthropist R' Fishel, to personally thank them for their enormous donation toward building a third magnificent building for girls' chinuch for Beis Rochel of our holy mosdos in Williamsburg. The Rebbe discussed all the details of the upcoming building, which will hold many classrooms, a magnificent auditorium and a simcha hall, and the Rebbe bestowed his holy blessing on them, saying, 'You have given me great joy with this joyous news.'

The plane took off at around 5:00 (local time).
At around 8:00 the plane landed at the Laconia airport, where the Rebbe davened Mincha in a side room in the airport. Baal Tefillah: the bochur Aryeh Leibush Stein (Williamsburg).

After Mincha the Rebbe warmly bid farewell to the distinguished rabbonim shlit"a and thanked HaGaon Av Beis Din of Nitra Monsey shlit"a profusely for helping to establish such a beautiful shechita. The Nitra Rav shlit"a admired the devotion of the Rebbe shlit"a in rising in the middle of his vacation to supervise the kashrus of the meat.

The Rebbe then traveled home, a one-hour trip to Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Meanwhile, the Rebbe shlit"a received a telephone report about the second wheat cutting from HaGaon Av Beis Din of Williamsburg shlit"a, who was there in Idaho on a holy mission, and the Rebbe derived great pleasure to hear that the cutting of nearly half a million pounds of wheat came out very nicely with all the hiddurim for the sake of the mitzvah of matzah.

Upon arriving at around 9:40, the Rebbe davened Maariv in the beis medrash of Kahal Yireim – Beis Elimelech,
Baal Tefillah: R' Shalom Weiss (Kiryas Joel).

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Monday, Parshas Vaeschanan — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a. Resort town of Bethlehem, New Hampshire

This morning the Rebbe entered for Shacharis in the beis medrash of Kehal Yereim – Beis Elimelech at around 8:50. Baal tefillah: HaRav R' Avrohom Simcha Gottlieb shlit"a (Kiryas Joel).

- Pesicha: R' Yissachar Ber Davidowitz (Kiryas Joel).
- Baal koreh: HaRav R' Chaim Moshe Landau (Kiryas Joel).
- Kohen: Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Kahana shlit"a.
- Levi: HaRav R' Yitzchak Brish Apfel.
- Shlishi: the Rebbe shlit"a. It was purchased by the bochur Shneur Zalman Eckstein, and the Rebbe thanked him.
- Hagbah: HaRav R' Chaim Eliezer Davidowitz shlit"a.
- Gelilah: HaRav R' Aharon Buchbinder (Boro Park).

After davening the Rebbe walked home to his holy residence, and on the way a conversation developed about the churban of the Beis HaMikdash and the Bein HaMetzarim period.

The Rebbe entered the beis medrash for Mincha at around 8:50. Baal tefillah: the bochur David son of Chaim Moshe Landau.

Between Mincha and Maariv the Rebbe was engaged in his learning. The Rebbe davened Maariv at the time of Rabbeinu Tam at around 9:20. Baal tefillah: the bar mitzvah bochur Dovid Mordechai Schwartz, may he live long.

After Maariv, the talmidim of our holy mosdos, the Kiryas Joel branch of Binyan Etz Chaim, entered the Rebbe's holy residence.
The Rebbe spoke words of chizuk to the children and heard them being tested on their learning. Afterwards all the children went over to receive a blessing from the Rebbe, and the Rebbe distributed a blessed dollar to every child, and warmly wished the melamdim and staff well.

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Shabbos Parshas Devarim – Chazon: 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a. Resort town of Bethlehem, New Hampshire

This Shabbos, a group of outstanding talmidim of the Yeshiva's Beirach Moshe branch chose to spend Shabbos "B'tzeil HaKodesh."

On Erev Shabbos afternoon, after the mikvah, the following bochurim presented answers to the question that the Rebbe had left over in the yeshiva, namely:
- The grandson of the Rebbe, the bochur Chaim Hersh Rokeach, son of the HaGaon Rabbi, Rav of the Beis Medrash Beis Chaim Yaakov shlit"a.
- The bochur Meir Pinchas Chaim, son of R' Moshe Yosef Ashkenazi shlit"a.
- The bochur Moshe, son of R' Yitzchak Kaufman shlit"a.
- The bochur Shmuel Mordechai, son of R' Chaim Elimelech Yakov shlit"a.
- The bochur Asher Lemel, son of Yoel HaKohen Moskowitz.

On Erev Shabbos at night, at around 8:50, the Rebbe entered for Mincha and approached the amud. Kabbalas Shabbos: R' Shmuel Krois shlit"a, a rebbi in the yeshiva. Davening ended at around 10:20. After davening, the congregation went over to wish a gut Shabbos and take "shalom," and the Rebbe went into his private room.

At around 10:40 the Rebbe entered the holy tish in the beis medrash of Kehal Yereim together with the talmidim of the yeshiva and the many guests from among our chassidim. With Eishes Chayil, the Rebbe honored his grandson, the bochur Yitzchak Eizik Teitelbaum, son of the HaGaon Rabbi, Rav of the Beis Medrash Beis Baruch shlit"a.
Raising the cup (Kiddush): HaGaon R' Hillel Rabinowitz shlit"a, director of the yeshiva.

With the zemiros, the Rebbe honored:
- Kol Mekadesh: HaGaon R' Yitzchak Eizik Glick shlit"a, a moreh tzedek in our holy kehilla in Kiryas Joel and a rebbi in the yeshiva.
- Menucha V'Simcha: R' Chaim Elimelech Yakov shlit"a, a rebbi in the yeshiva.

Our Rebbe shlit"a said Torah on the verse "After he had smitten Sichon king of the Amorites," and explained it in the manner of a drush in the sugya of "darshinan taama d'kra."

- Kah Echsof: R' Chaim Eliezer Davidowitz shlit"a (Kiryas Joel).
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Birchas Hamazon: HaGaon R' Hillel Rabinowitz shlit"a. Afterwards the Rebbe related stories and incidents about the holy Chozeh of Lublin zy"a, whose yahrzeit falls on Sunday, Tisha B'Av.
- Kah Ribon Olam: R' Yosef Dov Rosenfeld (Kiryas Joel).
The newly married young men went over to take fruit.
- Az B'yom HaShvi'i: R' Avigdor Herskowitz shlit"a, a rebbi in the yeshiva.

The tish ended at around 1:40.

On the Day of Shabbos

The Rebbe entered for davening at around 9:50.
Brachos and Pesukei D'Zimra: HaGaon R' Yitzchak Eizik Glick shlit"a; for Shacharis the Rebbe approached the amud.
Before the Torah reading, an appeal for the beis medrash was made by R' Fishel Farkash.

- Hotza'ah and Hachnasah: Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Horowitz shlit"a (Kiryas Joel).
- Pesukei Shema Yisroel: R' Chaim Eliezer Davidowitz shlit"a.
- Baal Koreh: the Rebbe's grandson, the bochur Yitzchak Eizik Teitelbaum.
- Kohen: HaGaon R' Yitzchak Eizik Glick shlit"a.
- Levi: R' Yonah Tzvi Hoffman (Kiryas Joel).
- Shlishi: the bochur David, son of Chaim Moshe Landau (Kiryas Joel).
- Revi'i: R' Yoel Halpert (Kiryas Joel).
- Chamishi: the bochur Moshe Avigdor, son of Yosef Dov Rosenfeld.
The Rebbe's aliyah was purchased by R' Meir Spitzer (Kiryas Joel); the Rebbe thanked him and instructed that a Mi Sheberach be made.
- Shevi'i: the bochur Yechezkel Akiva, son of Avrohom Yehoshua Retek (Williamsburg).
- Hosafos: R' Shalom Eliyahu Markowitz (Kiryas Joel).
- R' Chaim Moshe Landau.
- R' Chaim Elimelech Yakov shlit"a.
- R' Avigdor Herskowitz shlit"a.
- R' Chaim Yaakov Lebowitz (Kiryas Joel).
- R' Yosef Dov Rosenfeld.
- R' Tuvia Lipa Gross (Williamsburg).
- R' Yoel Friedman (Monsey).
- Rabbi Shmuel Menachem Horowitz shlit"a.
- R' Mordechai Leib Markowitz (Kiryas Joel).
- R' Yosef Chaviv Masri (Kiryas Joel).
- The bochur Yisroel Wolf, son of Eliyahu Yitzchak Rosenberg (Kiryas Joel).
- Acharon: R' Shlomo Elazar Spielman (Kiryas Joel).
- Maftir: HaGaon R' Hillel Rabinowitz shlit"a.
- Hagbah: R' Eliezer Liberman (Kiryas Joel).
- Gelilah: R' Yitzchak Berkowitz (Kiryas Joel).

For Mussaf, HaGaon R' Hillel Rabinowitz shlit"a approached the amud. Opening of Ane'im Zemiros: R' Hillel Fogel (Kiryas Joel). Davening ended at around 12:55.

At the Seudas Atika Kadisha, the Rebbe came over to the beis medrash for zemiros and divrei Torah at around 2:35; the niggunim of galus and geulah were sung.
The Rebbe tasted from the kugel and wished "lechayim."

- Baruch Hashem Yom Yom: R' Amram Acker (Kiryas Joel).
- Baruch Kel Elyon: R' Shalom Eliyahu Markowitz.
The Rebbe said Torah on the topic of the churban of the Beis Hamikdash.
Birchas Hamazon: Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Kahana shlit"a. It ended at around 3:20.

A few minutes later the Rebbe entered for Tefillas Mincha.
Baal tefillah: R' Yoel Friedman (Monsey).
- Hotza'ah and Hachnasah: R' Meir Steinmetz (Kiryas Joel).
- Kohen: R' Chaim Shaul Kahn.
- Levi: R' Zida Moshe Eliezer Gruber (Kiryas Joel).
- Shlishi: R' Yitzchak Ehrenfeld.

The Rebbe went to Hagbah; it was purchased by R' Tuvia Lipa Gross, and the Rebbe thanked him. Gelilah: the child, son of Tuvia Lipa Gross.
It ended at around 3:45, and the Rebbe went home to his holy residence.

Raava D'Raavin

The Rebbe entered for the zemiros of Shalosh Seudos at around 7:50. The Rebbe tasted challah and drank lechayim.
- Odeh: R' Yonah Tzvi Hoffman.
- Shir HaMaalos: R' Yoel Berkowitz shlit"a, son of the HaGaon HaGadol, a dayan and moreh tzedek of Kiryas Joel shlit"a.
The Rebbe focused on the verse in the haftarah, "The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amotz, which he saw," and added that since the third Beis Hamikdash is being built through the mitzvos and good deeds of Klal Yisroel, the holy Alshich asks: if so, why is the Beis Hamikdash not yet finished? Yidden do so many mitzvos! The holy Alshich says that it is true that many mitzvos are indeed done, but others come and, Heaven forbid, commit aveiros and destroy and break down the Beis Hamikdash. The Rebbe elaborated in words of mussar that each person must make a cheshbon hanefesh whether he is among the builders or, Heaven forbid, among the destroyers. "Any generation in which it is not rebuilt, it is as if it was destroyed in its days," since the Beis Hamikdash is indeed being built every day, but it is also being destroyed.
The Rebbe quoted from the holy Chasam Sofer zy"a, "When you merit, you count toward its building, and if you do not merit, you count toward its destruction." The Chasam Sofer used to calculate how many years it has been since the churban of the Beis Hamikdash. The Rebbe said that we now stand 1,957 years from the churban and still we have not been redeemed. It does not mean only that 1,957 years have passed since the churban; rather, it means that there have been 1,957 churbanos, Heaven forbid, since it is destroyed anew each year. For this we mourn. The Rebbe concluded and wished that the fifth day (Thursday) be transformed for us into joy and gladness with the coming of the righteous Redeemer, speedily in our days.

- Yedid Nefesh: Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Horowitz shlit"a.
- Kel Mistatter: R' Tuvia Lipa Gross.
The Rebbe recited Borei Pri Hagafen over the cup. It ended at around 9:15, and the Rebbe went home to his holy residence.

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