First Day of Pesach, 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a entered for Shacharis at around 10:50. Pesukei D'Zimra: HaGaon R' Baruch Shlomo Weinberger shlit"a. The Rebbe recited "V'chorois" verse by verse and proceeded to Shacharis. The chazzan for the repetition of the Shemoneh Esrei was HaGaon R' Yoel Meisels shlit"a, son of the HaGaon Av Beis Din of Montreal shlit"a. Afterwards the Rebbe proceeded to the recital of Hallel with great fervor.

Hotza'ah and Hachnasah (removing and returning the Torah): HaGaon R' Yosef Hersh Sofer shlit"a, a moreh tzedek, and HaGaon R' Wolf Aharon Teller shlit"a, director of Mivtzar HaKollelim. Verses of Shema Yisroel: R' Yaakov Hersh Friedman (Williamsburg).

Aliyos. Kohen: R' Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel HaKohen Glantz. Levi: R' Aharon Yosef Shmuel Berger. Shlishi: the Gaon Hagadol, the Dayan and Moreh Tzedek shlit"a. Revii: R' Yaakov Zusman Sofer. Chamishi: the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a.

After his aliyah, the Rebbe recited the name for the birth of a daughter to: R' Yitzchak Meir Farkash (Monsey).

Hagbah: R' Moshe Yosef Hirsch (Williamsburg). Gelilah: R' Moshe Gutman (Williamsburg).
Maftir: R' Yechezkel Dovid Berkowitz (Williamsburg). Hagbah: R' Moshe Avrohom Lefkowitz (Williamsburg). Gelilah: R' Yeshaya Binyomin Spielman.

After a break of several minutes, the Rebbe entered wearing the kittel and silver kappel and proceeded to Mussaf and the recital of Tal with great fervor.

Opening the Aron for Tal: R' Shmuel Aharon Landau. The Rebbe was approached at Kavei by R' Yitzchak Ehrenfeld. Opening of Ane'im Zemiros: R' Shmuel Yeshaya Retek. The davening concluded at around 2:30.

After davening, a bris for a newborn son took place at R' Shmuel Tzvi Stern, where the Rebbe served as sandek.

At the midday meal at his holy home, hundreds of out-of-town chasanim ate together with the Rebbe. During the seudah, several Yom Tov melodies were sung, and the Rebbe honored the singers to sing the piyut "Bareich Dodi."

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a delivered a Torah thought on the verse "And it shall be, when your children say to you, 'What is this service to you?'" and explained it in the manner of a derush on the sugya of "shelo k'derech achilah." After the Torah, the Rebbe spoke at length, giving straightforward guidance to the chasanim who, b'ezras Hashem, will this year establish Jewish homes and in time conduct the Pesach seder themselves. He recounted an incident that occurred this year of absorbed chometz in a Jewish kitchen, only because people were not careful and were not accustomed to take only what was made by themselves at home. "Do not forsake the Torah of your mother" — one cannot have everything on Pesach, and one need not have everything, and this should be remembered for a lifetime.

The Rebbe honored the bochur Shimon, son of R' Menachem Tzvi Cohen (Boro Park), with leading Birkas Hamazon. The seudah concluded at around 4:30.

In the afternoon at around 8:30, the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash for Mincha. Mincha: HaGaon R' Yisroel Henoch Scher shlit"a.
After Mincha, HaRav HaTzaddik R' Berl Glantz shlit"a of Bardiov, Kiryas Joel, spoke on behalf of the annual appeal of Kollel Shomrei HaChomos.

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