Therefore Zion weeps bitterly, and Yerushalayim raises her voice, for You, Hashem, set her aflame with fire.

A terrible fire broke out early Shabbos morning in the buildings of our kehilla and mosdos in the holy city of Yerushalayim, in which, sadly, among other things, two Sifrei Torah and a number of tefillin and mezuzos were, due to our sins, destroyed, Rachmana litzlan.

The fire began on Friday night at approximately 1:30 after midnight in the Talmud Torah building, and the entire hall was burned down. The remaining parts of the building suffered severe damage and are completely unusable. Likewise, the adjacent beis medrash building caught fire at the southeast corner near the Tehillos Moshe Aryeh shtiebel, where the Sifrei Torah were damaged, Hashem yerachem, and caused great damage to the entire building, so that a large part of the roof in the main hall of the beis medrash collapsed.

During the last hours of Motzei Shabbos, the administration of the kehilla and mosdos has been meeting in Eretz Yisroel to find places to accommodate the beis medrash along with the yeshiva and the Talmud Torah. Various kehillos and mosdos have offered to help our holy kehilla, and it is hoped, b'ezras Hashem, to arrange temporarily all the departments of the mosdos already by tomorrow morning, b'ezras Hashem. Likewise, the administration of our mosdos in Bnei Brak has offered the Yerushalayim administration of the mosdos every kind of assistance possible, so that the learning should not be interrupted. Starting tomorrow, IY"H, the kitchen of the Bnei Brak mosdos will cook for both mosdos and send out hearty breakfast and lunch for the talmidim of the Talmud Torah in Yerushalayim.

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a was informed of the bad news on Motzei Shabbos immediately after Havdalah, and IY"H will hold a telephone meeting with HaGaon Rabbi, the Av Beis Din of Yerushalayim shlit"a, together with the administration of our kehilla in Yerushalayim, in the coming hours, to decide what to do regarding the bitter occurrence and the obligation of the hour, regarding a day of fasting and eulogy and a levaya for the Sifrei Torah that were damaged, Hashem yerachem.

May it be Hashem's will that no more destruction and devastation be heard in our borders.

▫️ Satmara Niyes 🌴 ▫️