Report of the Visit and Holy Journey to Montreal, Canada - Part 1

At around 6:00 the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a left his holy home on the way to Stewart Airport, and at around 6:40 the private plane took off on the way to the exalted visit and holy journey to Montreal, may it be His will.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of Hashem

At 7:35 in the evening the plane landed, b'shaah tovah u'mutzlachas, at the local airport. Outside the airport, a large crowd of our chassidim waited with song and praise to greet the holy presence of the Rebbe shlit"a, together with the elders and dignitaries of the kehilla, baalei batim, avreichim and choice bochurim, and the entire crowd came forward to greet him with Shalom.

From there the Rebbe shlit"a arrived at the lodging in the home of R' Baruch Avrohom Perlmutter.

At the lodging, the prominent philanthropist R' Hershel Friedman, owner of the well-known Agri Star slaughterhouse in Iowa, where our kehilla's mehudar shechita operation is stationed, came in specially for a visit.

At around 9:00 the Rebbe shlit"a arrived at our great and splendid beis medrash for a grand reception, with drums and dancing, with the participation of hundreds of our chassidim, elders and youths, bochurim and young children, led by all the rabbonim and dayanim of the city shlit"a.

Upon arriving, the Rebbe looked around at the magnificent prayer halls and then went up to the main hall of the beis medrash for the festive gathering.
Songs of inspiration were sung, and R' Mordechai Hersh Goldman, one of the gabbaim of the beis medrash, stepped forward and called upon HaGaon Rabbi Mendel Wertzberger shlit"a, dayan of our holy kehilla, who greeted and welcomed the Rebbe with heartfelt emotion and spoke warm words in honor of the occasion. Afterwards HaGaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Yaakov Eliyahu Unsdorfer shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Reishis Chochma Montreal, stepped forward and spoke of the tremendous positive impact and influence of the Rebbe shlit"a, and the merit our chassidim have to be under the holy shade of the Rebbe shlit"a.

The Rebbe shlit"a said lechayim and blessed the entire crowd, and delivered words of Torah. The Rebbe mentioned the journeys of our holy Rebbes zy"a to Montreal and the influence they had for all eternity, and in their merit we merited the inauguration of such a magnificent beis medrash for Torah and prayer. He spoke in praise of our holy kehilla in Montreal and the good reports that are heard back, and concluded with his holy blessing to the entire crowd, "May it be His will that the Shechinah rest upon the work of your hands," and that they should continue to go forward with ease until the coming of the Redeemer, b'mheirah b'yameinu.
After the words of Torah, the Rebbe warmly greeted his brother-in-law, HaGaon HaTzaddik, the Av Beis Din shlit"a, who came specially to travel for Shabbos from New York, as the Rav shlit"a is currently resting these days due to weakness. Then HaGaon, the Av Beis Din shlit"a stepped forward and spoke in praise of the kehilla, and expressed the tremendous joy our chassidim have with the visit of the Rebbe shlit"a.
Afterwards the singing of joy continued as the entire crowd of our chassidim, elders and youths, came forward to greet the Rebbe shlit"a for an extended time.

After the gathering the Rebbe davened Maariv in the main hall of the beis medrash, and it concluded at around 10:40.

When the tzaddik is in the city, he is its glory, its splendor, and its majesty

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