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

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a davened Shacharis in the Heichal HaMesivta, Divrei Yoel branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Avrohom Yehoshua Berkowitz.
During the Torah reading the Rebbe went up for Hagbah, and after davening he learned the daily Tehillim shiur on chapter 19, verse 9. Afterwards a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Rebbe's private room.

At around 12:50 in the morning, the Rebbe shlit"a went over to the Talmud Torah building, the "Binyan Klein," for the ceremony marking the "start of learning Mishnayos" by over 400 third-grade talmidim from all four branches of Mosdos Kiryas Yoel. The children sang several songs and rhymes in honor of the occasion, led by the principals: HaRav R' Yechiel Yitzchak Spitzer shlit"a, HaRav R' Yehoshua Zalman Wertzberger shlit"a, HaRav R' Fishel Kaufman shlit"a, and HaRav R' Yoel Halpert shlit"a.
The Rebbe drank a lechayim and delivered words of blessing, expressing the joy of the children beginning to learn Mishnayos, and concluded with his holy blessing. The Rebbe then distributed shirayim to all the melamdim to give out to the children. The event concluded at around 1:35.

On the way out, the Rebbe shlit"a entered one of the classrooms, where he looked around and listened to the children's learning. On the way down, the Rebbe also pointed out a map of Europe hanging on one of the walls, indicating the cities through which the holy Divrei Yoel zy"a passed during the war, until the miraculous rescue on 21 Kislev.

Afterwards the Rebbe shlit"a went down to the magnificent Ginas Klein hall, accompanied by the mosdos administration, where the Rebbe looked around at the new separate entrance for men and the other for women, and at the new rooms the mosdos administration has added in keeping with the standards of tznius.

From there the Rebbe shlit"a traveled together with HaRav R' Shlomo Zalman Weiss, the devoted administrator of Mosdos Kiryas Yoel, to the new, grand building, the Beis Rachel Binyan Klein, where the Rebbe looked at the construction work on the gigantic building.

In the afternoon the Rebbe shlit"a went up to the Heichal HaYeshiva, Beirach Moshe branch, where he learned with a chavrusa from among the yeshiva's talmidim in his private room. At around 5:15 the Rebbe davened Mincha in the yeshiva.

In the evening the Rebbe shlit"a officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the following mechutanim:
HaRav R' Menachem Hirsch shlit"a (of Williamsburg) - HaRav R' Mordechai Kahn shlit"a, at Kinor Dovid hall.
R' Shlomo Tzvi Scheer (of Williamsburg) - R' Alexander Nachum Gottlieb, at Beis Rachel Paradise hall.
R' Chaim Eliezer Heller (of Williamsburg) - R' Meir Yaakov Indig, at Ginas Klein hall.

The time for receiving guests in the Rebbe's home was from about 8:15 until 12:30 at night, at his holy residence on Uhel Court.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim in the tenaim hall of his holy residence for the mechutanim HaRav R' Yoel Berish Weinstock - HaRav R' Avrohom Yehoshua Glantz.

During the reception, a ceremony marking the start of writing a Sefer Torah took place, which is being written by HaRav R' Naftali Hirtzka Kahn. The Rebbe wrote in the first letters, drank a lechayim, and bestowed his holy blessings.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 11:45, and afterwards continued receiving the public.

After Maariv, HaGaon Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Kraus shlit"a, nasi of Yeshivas Toras Chesed London, entered the Rebbe's holy room to greet him and be blessed. The Rebbe inquired after his welfare and warmly bestowed his holy blessing.

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