Tuesday, Parshas Vayakhel — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a davened Shacharis in the Heichal HaMesivta, Eitz Chaim branch, Shiur Gimmel. Before davening, the Rebbe put on tefillin for the bar mitzvah bochur the bochur Yisroel Shlomo Wertzberger.
After davening, the Rebbe recited the daily Tehillim shiur, on chapter 19, verse 10. Afterwards a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Heichal of the beis medrash, at which the bochur Avrohom Yitzchak son of R' Yuda Traitel Frankel, one of the talmidim of the yeshiva, made a siyum on a masechta and completed Seder Moed, and the Rebbe blessed him with his holy bracha.

In the afternoon the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a went up to the Heichal HaYeshiva, Beirach Moshe branch, where the Rebbe learned with a chavrusa from among the talmidim of the yeshiva in his private room. At around 5:45 the Rebbe davened Mincha in the yeshiva.

In the evening the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a traveled into Williamsburg for the weekly reception hours.
The reception hours in Kiryas Joel took place from around 8:15 until 11:40 at night, in his holy home on Hughes St.

During the reception hours, visiting in Kiryas Joel were HaGaon HaTzaddik, the Av Beis Din of London shlit"a, and HaGaon Rabbi Avrohom Tzvi Friedman shlit"a, Dayan and Moreh Tzedek of Galanta and author of Otzar Halachos. A fine conversation developed about the history of yeshivos in earlier times and today, and about the new yeshiva gedola of our kehilla in London, which will IY"H be opened this coming summer. Afterwards the Rabbi of London raised several halachic questions, on which the Rebbe deliberated and ruled. The Rebbe blessed them with his holy brachos, and HaGaon the Dayan of Galanta shlit"a presented the Rebbe with the new volumes of his sefer Otzar Halachos.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 9:40 and afterwards continued receiving the public.

After the reception hours, the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a traveled to Sighet to be menachem avel the family of his mechutan, the Rebbe HaGaon HaTzaddik, the Av Beis Din of Sighet zt"l. The Rebbe arrived at the beis medrash Kehal Yereim Sighet at around 12:15. A lengthy conversation took place about stories of tzaddikim of the House of Sighet and about various customs of aveilus. The Rebbe comforted the son-in-law of the deceased, HaGaon the Rav of the Beis Medrash Yismach Moshe shlit"a, and the entire family.
At around 1:00 the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a returned to his holy home in Kiryas Joel.

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