Wednesday, Parshas Shemini — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a davened Shacharis in the Heichal HaMesivta, V'Yoel Moshe branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put on tefillin for the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Zalman Leib Friedman.

After davening, the Rebbe delivered the daily Tehillim shiur on chapter 19, verse 14. Afterward, a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Rebbe's private room.

During the morning hours, the Rebbe shlit"a went over to the Divrei Chaim neighborhood, where a ceremony of pouring the foundations for the mikvah taharah in the neighborhood took place. The Rebbe poured the foundations and honored the rabbonim present and the donors to pour as well.
The Rebbe then went to the new offices of 'Mester Realty', owned by R' Hershel Levy, the donor of the land for the mikvah taharah. There a signing of documents took place, in which R' Hershel purchased a great merit in the new mikvah in our beis medrash 'Beis Shmuel' in the Divrei Chaim neighborhood. A fine conversation developed about expanding the borders of kedusha of the neighborhood. The Rebbe drank a lechayim and warmly blessed the donor, HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Halberstam shlit"a, rav of the beis medrash, his father HaGaon R' Baruch Levy shlit"a, rav of the beis medrash in Amsterdam, the leaders of the kehilla, and the entire community.

At about 1:50 in the afternoon, the Rebbe went over to the Heichal HaMesivta, Kedushas Yoel branch, where the Rebbe delivered the fourth sugya shiur as preparation for the Shabbos HaGadol derasha. It concluded at about 2:55.

In the afternoon hours, HaGaon R' Yehoshua Katz shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Mogrov, paid a visit to the Rebbe. The rav shlit"a conveyed greetings from our holy kehilla's mehudar bakery, where the rav had just baked matzos for Yom Tov Pesach, and praised the many chumros. A fine conversation ensued regarding kashrus in general and in particular regarding matters of STa"M.
Likewise, his son HaGaon R' Mordechai Avrohom shlit"a, ram of the chaburah in our kollel 'Kollel Divrei Yoel' in Boro Park, conveyed greetings from the kollel, and the Rebbe bestowed his holy blessing.

In the afternoon at about 6:30, the Rebbe davened Mincha in his holy home.

The reception hours in the Rebbe's presence ran from about 8:15 until 12:30 after midnight, in his holy home on Ohel Ct.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim in the tenaim hall in his holy home for the mechutanim: R' Shalom Levi Yitzchak Weissman shlit"a (Williamsburg) and R' Yoel Spielman.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at about 12:30.

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