Sunday, Parshas Ki Savo — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Beis Medrash HaGadol. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim.
- The bochur Elimelech Levi.
- The bochur Menachem Mendel Gruz.
After davening, the Rebbe blew shofar and recited ten chapters of Tehillim as is customary. Afterwards, a lechayim took place with the bar mitzvah bochurim in his private room.

On the way out of the beis medrash, the Rebbe stopped at the "Tefillin K'Halacha Drive" run by the "Agudas HaSofrim" under the auspices of the Beis Horaah of Kiryas Joel, where tefillin could be painted, the knot repaired, and so on. The Rebbe looked over the activities and bestowed a blessing of his holiness upon the askanim of the Agudah.

At around 1:00 the Rebbe traveled to Lindon, arriving at 2:10 at the Five Star hall, where the Chumash seudah of the students of our holy mosdos in Lindon took place, with the participation of the children's parents and grandfathers.
The Rebbe greeted the rabbonim at the head table, and the children sang several melodies and rhymes in honor of the occasion. HaGaon Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Sofer shlit"a, rav of our kehilla in Lindon, spoke. Afterwards the children recited the verses of Chumash from Parshas Vayikra as is customary, and sang Torah melodies. Then the Chumash-starters came forward, and the Rebbe distributed a siddur to all the children. The Rebbe also distributed blessed coins to the students of the older grades of our holy mosdos.
The Rebbe drank a lechayim and bestowed blessings upon the children and the entire public. He delivered words of holy Torah and expressed his joy that in Lindon there are so many young children beginning to learn Chumash. He said that, b'ezras Hashem, Lindon has a strong future, where hundreds of children will be educated, IY"H. He bestowed abundant blessings upon the parents and grandfathers of the Chumash-starters, the melamdim, and the administration of the mosdos, and especially upon the administration of our holy mosdos in Boro Park, who stand ready to assist the mosdos. The event concluded at around 2:50.

From there the Rebbe went to the guest accommodation in the home of R' Mordechai Weiss, where many of our chassidim, residents of the city, entered for a private audience in preparation for the Days of Mercy and Favor.
Audience hours were from 3:00 until 5:45.

After the audience hours, the Rebbe went to the new beis medrash "Alesk Stanislav," headed by HaGaon Rabbi Nosson Dovid Ashkenazi shlit"a, which was opened this past Shabbos Kodesh. The Rebbe looked around the beis medrash and affixed a mezuzah. Then a lechayim gathering took place in the beis medrash sanctuary, a pleasant conversation developed, and the Rebbe drank a lechayim and bestowed of his blessing.

Afterwards, the Rebbe went to visit the construction work at our magnificent beis medrash, which is in its final construction phases. The Rebbe entered the beis medrash and looked around, and heard a report from the HaGaon, rav of our kehilla in Lindon shlit"a, and from the administration of our holy kehilla about the plans to renovate the beis medrash for Rosh Hashana, which is coming upon us for good, and the Rebbe bestowed of his blessing.
At around 6:15 the Rebbe set out for home in Kiryas Joel.

Upon arriving in Kiryas Joel at around 7:15, the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim:
- R' Yosef Leib Kaufman and R' Yoel Berger in the Kinor Dovid halls.
- R' Yekusiel Yeshaya Gross and R' Yisroel Gutman in the Beis Rachel Paradise halls.
- HaGaon Rabbi Menachem Zev Stern shlit"a, moreh tzedek in our holy kehilla in Williamsburg, and R' Yoel Hersh Rotta in the Ginas Klein halls.

At around 7:50 the Rebbe davened Mincha in his holy home at the Ohel Kt.
Afterwards there were audience hours in the Kodesh Pnimah until 12:00 at night in his holy home.

At around 10:15 the Rebbe went down to the tenaim halls in his holy home, where the Rebbe read the tenaim of the mechutanim:
- R' Yoel Brauner and R' Meir Avrohom Gross.
- R' Yoel Gebra and R' Ariel Yoel Keira.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 12:00. The Rebbe lit candles and approached the amud in honor of the yahrzeit of his ancestor, the holy Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov Yokel of Valove zt"l.

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