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

This morning before Shacharis, a bris was held for the newborn son of R' Yaakov Glantz, where the Rebbe served as sandek and mohel.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Heichal HaMesivta, Divrei Yoel branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Yonah Weiss.

During the Torah reading, the Rebbe went up for Hagbah. After davening, the Rebbe delivered a shiur on a sugya in the yeshiva's shiurim in Maseches Bava Metzia, perek HaMafkid, daf 36b, in the sugya of "a shomer who handed over to a shomer," and, as is customary, left a question open in the sugya before leaving for vacation. Afterwards a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Rebbe's private room. Then the Rebbe was escorted out with song and music, with "Ki Malachav," on the occasion of his departure for vacation.

At about 1:20 the Rebbe left his holy residence, and the assembled crowd came to bid farewell to the Rebbe shlit"a. On the way out, the Rebbe stopped at the Tolchava beis medrash, where the Rebbe paid a consolation visit to HaGaon Rabbi Henich Mordechai Meisels shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Tolchava, who was sitting shiva for his brother, HaRav HaTzaddik Rabbi Michael Shlomo Dov Meisels z"l, rav of Kehal Chevra Shas in London.

From there the Rebbe traveled to Stewart Airport, where the Rebbe's private plane took off at about 2:30 for the vacation town in New Hampshire, where the Rebbe will spend the coming four weeks of rest.
At about 3:20 the plane landed at Mount Washington Regional Airport in Whitefield, New Hampshire,
where R' Fishel Farkash, gabbai of the beis medrash, together with several other askanim, waited and greeted the Rebbe. The Rebbe then immediately traveled a drive of under twenty minutes to his holy residence in Bethlehem, New Hampshire.

The Rebbe came in to Mincha in the beis medrash at about 9:00. The baal tefillah was the Chaver Beis Din, HaGaon, the rav of the Yismach Moshe beis medrash shlit"a. Between Mincha and Maariv the Rebbe was engaged in his learning. At about 9:40 Maariv was davened. After Maariv the crowd came over to greet the Rebbe.

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