Monday, Parshas Vayeira — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a davened Shacharis in the main hall of the Mesivta, Divrei Yoel branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Moshe Yitzchak Bernstein.
During the Torah reading the Rebbe went up for Hagbah, and after the daily chapters of Tehillim, the Rebbe recited the order of Tehillim chapters that was designated to be said today by the Posek HaDor U'Mara D'Ara Kadisha shlit"a, together with the Beis Din Tzedek of the Eida HaChareidis in the holy city of Yerushalayim, may it be rebuilt, in light of the war situation in Eretz Yisroel, and after that the Rebbe recited the "Achienu Kol Beis Yisroel" prayer for our brethren of the entire house of Israel who are in distress, etc.

After davening the Rebbe taught the daily Tehillim shiur on chapter 18, verse 31. Afterwards a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Rebbe's private room.

In the afternoon at around 5:00 the Rebbe davened Mincha in his holy home.

At around 5:40 the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a arrived at the Yismach Moshe beis medrash, where the Rebbe delivered the opening-of-the-zman address in honor of the start of the winter zman to the 1,263 bochurim, may they live, from the 7 branches of the holy Mesivta in Kiryas Melech, Kiryas Joel, may it be rebuilt. The main hall of the beis medrash was set up with only benches, with hundreds of additional small benches added in order to accommodate the thousands of talmidim of the Mesivta.

The Rebbe began with a lengthy discourse on the parsha, explaining in various ways in the words of aggadah, combined with words of mussar and chizuk, regarding the three pillars of the world: Torah, avodah and gemilus chasadim. The Rebbe encouraged going to the mikvah every day, spoke about the beauty of the Shabbosos in the yeshiva, especially the Ra'avah D'Ra'avin seudah, and about guarding oneself from the devices. The Rebbe also strengthened the takanah of the founder of the yeshiva, the Holy Rebbe zy"a, not to attend weddings, and spoke of the merit the bochurim have to learn in the yeshiva of the Holy Rebbe zy"a.

Afterwards the Rebbe expanded his words on matters of emavah and da'as in the teachings of the Holy Rebbe zy"a, because of the terrible events of the time, may Hashem protect us, in Eretz Yisroel and in the Diaspora. He spoke of the great pain over those killed and all the victims, even those who are not Torah and mitzvah observers, but when a gentile has killed them it is a different matter. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is pained by the suffering of Israel, and every Jew must feel pain. In this connection the Rebbe recalled a talk of the Holy Rebbe, the Divrei Yoel zy"a, during the Second World War about rescuing the refugees of Poland, that one must help all refugees, even those who do not observe Torah and mitzvos, and how he expressed himself in Lashon Hakodesh in Divrei Yoel: "A Jew, even though he has sinned, is still a Jew."

The Rebbe spoke at length about the directive of the Holy Rebbe zy"a that in such a time one must pray for the rescue of the Jews, but, Heaven forbid, not for the success of the Zionists; Hashem is all-powerful. Then the Rebbe expressed with pain that, unfortunately, while Hakadosh Baruch Hu is pained over those killed from Klal Yisroel, there are, unfortunately, Jews who are pained more that "my strength and the might of my hand" suffered such a humiliation and the blow it took to the ones they relied on. This is indeed our satisfaction, the tremendous humiliation it caused before the whole world; the shame and anger over this are very great. The arrogance, the heretical slogan of "Israel trusts in the IDF" took a strong blow, and a personal blow to the head of the heretics.

The Rebbe went on with concern over what revenge campaigns can, Heaven forbid, bring about. One must know that on one side stand cruel murderers, murderers of bodies, but on the other side stand murderers of souls; "one who causes another to sin is worse than one who kills him," which is much worse than the murderers of bodies. The Rebbe concluded with a prayer to the Guardian of Israel to have mercy on all of Klal Yisroel in all their places of dwelling, and blessed all with abundant blessings. It ended at around 6:50.

In the evening the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a officiated at kiddushin at the chuppahs of the following mechutanim.
R' Shlomo Zalman Horowitz - R' Lipa Schonbrun, at Kinor David hall.
R' Binyetzion Jacobowitz - R' Michoel Peketa, at Beis Rochel Paradise hall.
R' Moshe Markowitz - R' Yoel Weissman, at Ginas Klein hall.

Entry hours for Kabbolas Pnimim were from around 8:20 until 12:15 at night, in his holy home on Uhel Court.

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim at the tenaim held in his holy home, of the mechutanim HaRav Nesanel Menachem Deutsch shlit"a - HaRav Yoel Fish shlit"a.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 12:15.

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