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

In the morning at around 8:50, the Rebbe set out on the way to the annual visit to the summer camps of our holy institutions of Williamsburg and Boro Park.

At around 9:50, the Rebbe arrived at the bochurim's camp, Machane Rav Tuv, in Swan Lake.
The Rebbe shlit"a davened Shacharis together with the hundreds of talmidim of the preparatory yeshiva class, 9th grade, of Williamsburg and Boro Park. The Rebbe put on tefillin of Rabbeinu Tam in the beis medrash. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim.
The son of R' Elazar Mendel Filaff shlit"a.
The bochur Yosef Mordechai Kahana.
The baal tefillah was R' Avrohom Yonah Schwartz shlit"a, a rebbi in our holy institutions in Boro Park.

After Shacharis, the Rebbe distributed holy coins to the talmidim of our holy institutions of Williamsburg who had brought in larger sums on the past Yom Tov of Purim for the benefit of our holy institutions, and then the Rebbe wished a blessing to the bar mitzvah bochurim.

From there the Rebbe went over to the home of R' Aharon Weinberger, in the camp's lodgings, for a morning meal.

At around 12:50 the Rebbe returned to the bochurim's camp. The Rebbe entered the batei medrash where the bochurim learn and looked around with great nachas. The Rebbe went around among the tables and listened to the bochurim's learning, first in the beis medrash of the 9th grade talmidim of our holy institutions of Williamsburg, under the direction of HaGaon Rabbi Yuda Ber Teller shlit"a. Before leaving the beis medrash, already on the way out, the Rebbe asked for the microphone and left the bochurim with a question on their learning in Maseches Kiddushin. Then the Rebbe went over to the beis medrash of the 9th grade talmidim of our holy institutions of Boro Park, under the direction of HaGaon Rabbi Akiva Yosef Kahana shlit"a. The Rebbe looked at their learning and engaged in pilpul with the bochurim for an extended time.

Afterwards the Rebbe went back upstairs, where a lechayim gathering with the bochurim took place in the hall of the beis medrash. Several niggunim and rhymes were sung. The Rebbe drank lechayim and wished the bochurim well, and delivered holy words of preparation for the coming days of mercy and favor, concluding with his holy blessings. It ended at around 2:05.

From there the Rebbe shlit"a traveled to the boys' camp, Machane Rav Tuv, in Monticello, where the Rebbe arrived at around 2:20. The Rebbe went up to the 4 batei medrash of the older grades, 6th, 7th and 8th, the talmidim of our institutions in Williamsburg, the branch of R' Moshe Eliyahu Green shlit"a, the branch of R' Yoel Stern shlit"a, the branch of R' Elazar Eichenstein shlit"a, and then the talmidim of our institutions in Boro Park under the direction of R' Zerach Shapiro shlit"a. For over an hour the Rebbe strolled among the children, looking at their learning with great nachas and listening to the children. Among them were several of his grandchildren shlit"a, whom the Rebbe greeted especially and gave pocket money, following the custom of his father, the holy Rebbe zy"a.

On the way out, the camp children were waiting, where they sang a niggun, and the Rebbe distributed sweets to the children.

Afterwards all the children gathered in the dining hall for the welcoming ceremony.
The children welcomed the Rebbe with song and music, and then sang warm rhymes in honor of the occasion. The Rebbe drank lechayim and wished the children well, and then delivered holy words, expounding on the greatness of the tefillos of children, especially of saying Amen Yehei Shmei Rabbah, and concluded with his holy blessings. Then the Rebbe distributed shirayim to the rebbeim to hand out to all the children.

It ended at around 4:20, and the Rebbe left the camp and drove through the children as they stood lined up on both sides of the camp, wishing a good year of kesiva v'chasima tova.
At around 5:10 the Rebbe arrived home to his residence in Kiryas Joel.

In the evening the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the following mechutanim.
R' Yoel son of R' Yosha Shmaya - R' Yoel son of R' Yaakov Acker, at the Kinor David hall.
R' Yisroel Aryeh Berkowitz a"h - R' Betzalel Chaim Bash, at the Beis Rachel Paradise hall.
R' Chaim Ber Grad - R' Chaim Friedlander, at the Ginas Klein hall.

Yechidus hours were from around 8:00 until 12:00 at night, at his residence on Uhel Court.

At around 8:30 the Rebbe davened Mincha at his residence.
During the yechidus hours, the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe shlit"a, who is staying these weeks in the Chasam Sofer neighborhood of Kiryas Joel, came for a visit. A pleasant conversation ensued about stories of tzaddikim of the houses of Sanz and Vizhnitz. The Rebbe honored him with a lechayim and warmly bestowed his holy blessing, and especially wished him mazel tov on the upcoming wedding of a grandson next week, and then escorted him all the way outside.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim in the tenaim hall at his residence for the following mechutanim.
R' Akiva Zvi Gestetner - R' Yoel Rosenberg.
R' Yoel Zev Scheer - R' Yonah Dovid Perl.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 12:00, and after Maariv set out for Shikun Skver to the wedding of the chosson, son of HaGaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Twersky shlit"a, the grandson of his brother-in-law the Skver Rebbe shlit"a.
The Rebbe arrived at around 12:50 and greeted his brother-in-law the Skver Rebbe shlit"a and the rabbanim shlit"a. A conversation took place. The Rebbe drank lechayim and wished the chosson, the mechutanim and the grandfathers well, and then went out to dance with the chosson and the mechutanim, and especially with his brother-in-law the Skver Rebbe shlit"a.
The Rebbe left the wedding at around 1:15 on the way home to his residence in Kiryas Joel.

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