"A Day of Teruah Shall It Be for You" — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

After Alos, the Rebbe went to the mikvah and then returned home to his holy dwelling.

On the first day of Yom Tov, Shabbos Kodesh, in the morning at the time of putting on the tallis, the tallis of the holy Rebbe, the Divrei Yoel zy"a, which the Rebbe wears at Mussaf, was lying on the table.

At around 8:10 the Rebbe shlit"a entered the Great Beis Medrash.
The Rebbe shlit"a davened his holy Shacharis tefillos alone before his Creator, with a broken and burning heart, pleading for mercy like a poor man at the door, with awesome weeping that was heard throughout the entire beis medrash, particularly at 'Shir HaMaalos Mima'amakim' and at the piyut 'Yarasi B'fotzi,' which shook the hearts of the thousands of mispallelim.

Pesukei D'zimra: HaGaon R' Dovid Perl shlit"a. Kerios, the Rebbe said verse by verse. Shacharis: the Gaon HaGadol, the Av Beis Din shlit"a. Shacharis ended at around 11:15.

After a short break the Rebbe shlit"a entered wearing the kittel and silver kappel. Hotzaah and Hachnasah (taking out and returning the Torah) honors were given to HaGaon R' Yosef Hersh Sofer shlit"a, a moreh tzedek, and HaGaon R' Yoel Meisels shlit"a, son of the Gaon Av Beis Din of Montreal shlit"a. Pesukei Shema Yisroel: R' Eli Gross shlit"a of Boro Park.

The Rebbe shlit"a was the baal koreh, and read in the voice of a child, with tears and great arousal.
Aliyos. Kohen: R' Yitzchak Elyakim Schwartz. Levi: R' Aharon Yosef Berger — the Rebbe was kore shem for his newborn daughter, mazel tov. Shlishi: HaGaon R' Wolf Brauer shlit"a. Revii: R' Avrohom Wieder. Chamishi: R' Lipa Gross. Shishi: the Rebbe shlit"a.

After his aliyah, the Rebbe shlit"a was kore shem on the occasion of the birth of a daughter for:
R' Yoel Moshe Farkash.
R' Yaakov Yosef Hoffman.
R' Lipa Farkash.
R' Shmuel Yehuda Moskowitz.
R' Alter Hersh Weingarten.
R' Moshe Weiss.

Shevii: R' Yehuda Weiss. Hagbah of the first sefer: R' Wolf Schnitzer. Gelilah: R' Ari Hoffman (Monsey).
Maftir: R' Meir Hirsch. Hagbah of the second sefer: R' Mordechai Hersh Farkash. Gelilah: R' Berel Stein.

The Torah scrolls were returned, and a bris took place for the newborn son of R' Lipa Gottlieb, where the Rebbe was sandek and mohel. It ended at around 12:15.

There was a pause. The Rebbe shlit"a went to the mikvah and then into his private room.

At around 1:10 the Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash wrapped in the tallis, kappel and kittel of the holy Rebbe, the Divrei Yoel zy"a, and beneath the kittel a white kaftan.
The Rebbe shlit"a went up to the aron kodesh, said a silent prayer, and began the festive derasha on the verse "And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, a Shabbason, a remembrance of teruah." He explained that the purpose of the blowing of the shofar is to arouse to teshuva, but on Shabbos, when everyone merits an arousal to teshuva from the bas kol that goes out every day, one can therefore come to teshuva even without the blowing of the shofar. In words of rebuke he continued to arouse to teshuva: on Rosh Hashana we do not mention sins with the mouth, but in thought one may and must make a cheshbon hanefesh about where one stands. He awakened mercy with strong weeping over alarming reports about children of fine homes who, sadly, have been lost to the Jewish path. No one is guaranteed! Now is the time to tear open abundant heavenly mercy. May Hashem Yisbarach pour out a spirit of purity from on high, "and the children shall return to their borders." He concluded with many blessings. It ended at around 1:35. After the derasha the Rebbe said Kaddish D'rabbanan.

The Rebbe shlit"a approached the amud for Tefillas Mussaf, said "Hineni He'ani M'maas," and began Kaddish at around 1:40.

The Rebbe shlit"a davened from a machzor of the Nusach Tefillah Yesharah.

Approaching the aron kodesh with awe, with Your people surrounding it like a wall, joining in the holy service with awe and reverence, with arousal and holy emotion at Tefillas Mussaf, especially at the pesukim of Malchiyos, Zichronos and Shofaros, with a thundering voice and a heart poured out like water, "the eyes of Your people are lifted to You and eyes long for You"

The pesichos at Mussaf were given as honors to R' Yehoshua Wertzberger, R' Berel Palatchek, R' Moshe Goldstein, and R' Moshe Ari Freund.

R' Chaim Eli Zwiebel and R' Wolf Glick were honored with lifting the Rebbe at Korim.
R' Yitzchak Ehrenfeld approached for Kavei. Pesicha for Ane'im Zemiros: R' Yudel Basol (Williamsburg). It ended at around 4:50.
Raava D'raavin

For Mincha and Shalosh Seudos the Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash at around 7:05. Mincha: R' Aharon Spitzer. Hotzaah and Hachnasah: R' Avrohom Yitzchak Landau. Kohen: R' Eli Shaul Katz (Boro Park). Levi: R' Nechemya Shlomo Wertzberger (Monsey). Shlishi: the Rebbe's grandson Rabbi Dovid Teitelbaum shlit"a. Hagbah: the Rebbe shlit"a. Gelilah: Rabbi Avrohom Dovid Wagshal shlit"a (Monsey).

At Lechayim the Rebbe wished a good, blessed year, that everyone should have all their good requests fulfilled.
The Rebbe shlit"a gave out the honors for the zemiros. Odeh: Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Brody shlit"a (Bnei Brak). Shir HaMaalos: R' Moshe Goldstein.

The Rebbe shlit"a said Torah on the text of the tefilla "Od Yizkor Lanu Ahavas Eisan," explaining that the merit of the holy Avos, Avrohom, Yitzchak and Yaakov, is joined by Hakadosh Baruch Hu for the Jewish children, bringing the future good.

Yedid Nefesh: R' Lipa Friedman (Williamsburg). El Mistateir: R' Aharon Hersh Mittelman (Boro Park).
After the singing, the Rebbe shlit"a told the story in the name of R' Aharon T"B z"l of Uhel: when his grandfather, the holy R' Shmuel Garlitzer zy"a, sang the niggun before the holy Yismach Moshe zy"a, the Yismach Moshe said it is a good niggun, and he should set it aside for the holy days. The Rebbe made a bracha on the cup, and went into his private room.

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