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

In the morning, before Shacharis, a bris took place for the newborn son of R' Mendel Gutman (Montreal), at which the Rebbe was sandek and mohel.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the hall of the Mesivta, Yoel Moshe branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim:
The bochur Moshe Avrohom Schönbrunn.
The bochur Moshe Henoch Friedman.
The bochur Yosef Rosenberg.
The bochur Yoel Fromowitz.

After davening, the Rebbe blew shofar and said over the daily Tehillim shiur on chapter 23, verse 1, and continued with guidance for the upcoming bein hazmanim. Afterwards a lechayim took place with the bar mitzvah bochurim in his private room.

At around 1:45 the Rebbe arrived at the Yeshiva Gedolah, Berach Moshe branch, where the Rebbe delivered the eighth shiur on the topic of "Mitzvos lav lehenos nitnu," as preparation for the Shabbos Shuva derasha. It concluded at around 2:20.

In the afternoon hours, HaGaon Rabbi, the Av Beis Din of Williamsburg shlit"a, entered the Rebbe's room, where the Rav shlit"a gave a report on the Yeshiva Ketana "Derech HaTorah," which has now completed its third year, baruch Hashem, successfully, and is already preparing, b'shaah tovah, to send its students on to the yeshiva gedolah. On this occasion, the Rebbe shlit"a also mentioned the second branch of the yeshiva, which has just completed its first year, "Yeshivas Bishvilei HaTorah." They also discussed various details of our holy mosdos, the yeshivos ketanos, and the yeshiva for younger boys in Williamsburg, where the Rebbe expressed with great satisfaction the good reports being heard back from all the branches of the yeshivos after a very successful year that passed well.

In the afternoon at around 6:00, a completion of the writing of the letters took place for the Sefer Torah being written by the philanthropist R' Chaim Avrohom son of R' Yirmiyah Brach of Lakewood, which will be brought in on Erev Yom Kippur Kodesh to the town of Ratzfert, Hungary. A signing of the documents also took place, at which R' Chaim Avrohom purchased a distinguished merit in our great beis medrash in Lakewood. The Rebbe wrote in the letters and drank a lechayim, and a pleasant conversation developed about the holy Rabbi Hirtzke'le of Ratzfert zy"a and the expansion of the borders of holiness of our holy kehilla in Lakewood. The Rebbe signed the documents together with the donor and warmly bestowed his holy blessings.

Entry times (zmanei kenisa) with the Rebbe were from 6:30 until 11:45 at night at his home on Ohel Court.
At around 7:30 the Rebbe davened Mincha at his home.

After Mincha, the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim, Rabbi Nosson Nata Hauser shlit"a and R' Shalom Eliezer Berger, at Beis Rochel Paradise hall, and afterwards continued with the entry times.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim of the mechutanim R' Yoel son of R' M. Wertzberger and R' Dovid Ungar.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 11:45.

After Maariv, the Rebbe went to the cemetery of Kiryas Joel for the levaya of R' Tuvia Schreiber a"h.

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