The Night of Tisha B'Av 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash for Maariv at around 9:45. The baal tefillah was HaRav R' Betzalel Binyamin Friedrich (Kiryas Joel).

"She weeps bitterly in the night"
After Maariv, the Rebbe shlit"a recited Megillas Eichah and the Kinos for the night of Tisha B'Av, lamenting the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash with intense weeping. The chazzan was the Motzei Shabbos chazzan, R' Yoshe Mendlowitz. They finished at around 10:50.

Thursday, Tisha B'Av

The Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash for Shacharis at around 9:45.
During Birchos HaShachar, the Rebbe also recited the blessing of "she'asah li kol tzarki." The baal tefillah was HaRav R' Meshulam Zusha Lewy (Williamsburg).

Petucha: R' Hershel Ganz (Kiryas Joel); Kohen: Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Kahana; Levi: R' Moshe Aryeh Friedman (Kiryas Joel); Shlishi and Maftir: the Rebbe shlit"a; Hagbah: R' Yehuda Binyamin Landau (Kiryas Joel); Gelilah: the bochur Yeshaya Shabsi Brach (Kiryas Joel).
The Rebbe then recited the Haftorah and its blessings, weeping bitterly, for an extended time.

After the Torah reading, the Rebbe recited the Kinos for Tisha B'Av with weeping and lamentation. The Motzei Shabbos chazzan, R' Yoshe Mendlowitz, led. After the Kinos, they concluded with Ashrei, U'va L'Tzion, and Aleinu. They finished at around 1:00.

The Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash for Mincha at around 7:05. The Rebbe put on tallis and tefillin in the beis medrash, and then put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, son of R' Chaim Yoshe Lewy shlit"a (Kiryas Joel).
The Rebbe recited the four parshiyos, taking the tzitzis at Krias Shema, and then completed the Shir Shel Yom and Kavei.
The baal tefillah was R' Elchanan Taub (Kiryas Joel). Petucha: R' Dovid Farkash. Kohen: the bochur Chaim Shaul Kahn (Kiryas Joel). Levi: the bar mitzvah bochur. Shlishi and Maftir: the Rebbe shlit"a. Hagbah: HaRav R' Yosef Massri (Kiryas Joel). Gelilah: HaRav R' Eliezer Hersh Neiman (Kiryas Joel).

After Mincha, the Rebbe put on Rabbeinu Tam tefillin and recited the five daily chapters of Tehillim. They finished at around 8:10.
On the way home, a conversation developed about various Tisha B'Av customs, among others about going to the mikvah on Motzei Tisha B'Av.

At the time of Rabbeinu Tam, the Rebbe entered the beis medrash for Maariv.

May it be Hashem's will that the Beis HaMikdash be rebuilt speedily in our days, and may these days be transformed into joy and gladness.

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