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

Before davening, a bris of a newborn son took place for R' Yosef Mendel Kohn, where the Rebbe served as sandek and mohel.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Yeshiva Gedolah Branch Divrei Yoel. During the Torah reading, the Rebbe was called up as the third aliyah (Shlishi).

After davening, the Rebbe delivered the daily Tehillim shiur on chapter 26, verse 12, where the Rebbe spoke about the intensified decrees of the draft in Eretz Yisroel, and greatly strengthened our brethren, the inhabitants of Eretz Yisroel, to stand like a fortified wall and to get through the bitter decree with the help of Heaven, just as we have come through all the difficult decrees throughout the long exile. Afterwards, a lechayim took place in the Rebbe's private room in honor of the siyum on Shas by the bochur Elkim Yuda, son of R' Eliezer Berman Herskovits, one of the outstanding talmidim of the yeshiva.

In the afternoon, the Rebbe went up to the Yeshiva Branch Birkas Moshe, where the Rebbe learned with a chavrusa in his private room.

In the evening, the Rebbe officiated at kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim R' Mordechai Yaakov Felberbaum and R' Yitzchak Lipa Gutman in the halls of Kinor David.
And at the chuppah of the mechutanim R' Yoel Berish Greenfeld and R' Lipa Sandel in the halls of Beis Rachel Paradise.
And at the chuppah of the mechutanim Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Davidovitch shlit"a and R' Chaim Shlomo Ackerman in the halls of Ginas Klein.

Between the chuppos, at around 8:10, the Rebbe davened Mincha in his holy home at Ohel Court.

Yechidus hours ran from 8:40 until 12:50 at night in his holy home at Ohel Court.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim for the mechutanim Rabbi Itamar Tuvia Wieder shlit"a and HaGaon R' Yoel Gutman shlit"a, a moreh tzedek of Kiryas Joel.
And for the mechutanim R' Daniel Yonason Aghami and R' Yoel Masri, in the tenaim halls in his holy home.

During the yechidus hours, a document-signing ceremony took place in the Rebbe's private room, where HaGaon R' Yoel Farkash shlit"a, rav of the beis medrash Avodas Aharon in the Jefferson neighborhood of expanded Kiryas Joel, donated a plot of land to enable the building of a mikvah tahara for our holy kehilla in the Jefferson neighborhood. A pleasant conversation developed about the neighborhood and the importance of increasing taharah among Klal Yisroel. The Rebbe signed the documents together with the donor, HaGaon R' Yoel shlit"a, and warmly wished his holy blessing to the donor and to the residents of the neighborhood.

Also entering the private room was the Bonei Olam administration, headed by director Rabbi Shlomo Buchner shlit"a, to receive his holy blessing in honor of the upcoming annual campaign for Bonei Olam in Kiryas Joel. The Rebbe inquired and reviewed the details of the organization, and warmly wished his holy blessing to the askanim and especially to the director, R' Shlomo.

Also, a meeting took place in the private room together with the Gaon HaGadol, the av beis din of Kiryas Joel shlit"a, and with the participation of Rabbi Yerucham Silver of Agudath Israel of America, R' Menachem Horowitz and R' Berish Fried of the 'Chaim Aruchim' organization, which helps patients whom the doctors have already given up on, may Hashem protect us, askanim of Kiryas Joel Hatzalah, and askanim of several other refuah organizations, together with several doctors and chaplains from hospitals, among them Memorial, Cornell, Columbia ICU, and others, where they discussed pressing matters regarding the bitter situation in the hospitals, among them the new assisted-suicide law in New York, which would allow doctors to give poison to patients who wish to end their lives, Heaven forbid. The askanim and doctors discussed the current situation in the hospitals, the severe neglect and other mistreatment there, and the pressure placed on patients to stop fighting for their lives, Heaven forbid, and how such a law could, Heaven forbid, make things worse. They consulted about what can be done to stop it, through intervention with elected officials and the governor. The Rebbe strengthened the askanim to continue with their holy work and bestowed from his holy blessing.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 12:50.

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