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

This morning a bris took place for the newborn son of R' Yoel ben R' Moshe Eckstein, at which the Rebbe served as sandek.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Beis Medrash HaGadol. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Yoel Shlomo Zalman Katz.
During the Torah reading, the Rebbe was called up as shlishi. After davening, a lechayim took place with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Rebbe's private room.

In the afternoon hours, high-ranking officials from the prisons in America and from the local Otisville prison in New York came to the Rebbe's holy home, at the personal invitation of the Rebbe shlit"a during his visit to the prison last month, after a lengthy visit in Kiryas Joel, at Mivtzar HaKollelim, Mesivta, Beis Rochel, Eishes Chayil, and more.

During the visit in the Rebbe's holy home, R' Gedalya Segedin, a member of the Kiryas Joel administration, spoke. He welcomed the officials and conveyed their impressions after visiting a city like Kiryas Joel, where so many thousands of families live without any criminal activity. Afterwards, the head warden of the Otisville prison spoke.
On this occasion the Rebbe discussed many matters concerning how to ease conditions for our Jewish brethren who are in distress and captivity, among them furloughs for Shabbosos and Yamim Tovim, providing fresh food, and various other matters. He then bestowed his holy blessing upon the prison officials and upon all the distinguished askanim present, among them R' Moshe Margareten of the Tzedek organization, Rabbi Avrohom Yosha Freund shlit"a of Nassau, and R' Shlomo Abramovitz, and thanked them warmly for their efforts to help and ease conditions for the Jews sitting in darkness and the shadow of death.
Afterwards the local prison officials remained privately with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, and various matters were discussed, as it is hoped that various efforts to ease conditions for our brethren will soon be seen. The Rebbe bid them farewell and thanked them warmly.

At around 5:20 the Rebbe davened Mincha in his holy home, at the small minyan.

In the evening, the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim:
- R' Yoel ben R' Shalom Gruber and R' Yoel ben R' Ephraim Hirsch, in the halls of Kinor Dovid.
- R' Levi Apfel and R' Yeshaya Mendel Weiss, in the halls of Beis Rochel Paradise.

After the chuppos, at around 7:50, the Rebbe went to Beis Medrash Shaarei Tefilla in the Helfa Hollow neighborhood of Kiryas Joel, where a Sheva Brachos celebration took place in our holy courts, arranged by the mispallelim of the beis medrash and the residents of the neighborhood in honor of the mechutan, HaGaon Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Panet shlit"a, rav of the beis medrash.
The Rebbe first went in to view the mikvah adjacent to the beis medrash, which is under the strict supervision of the Mikvah Committee under the auspices of the Beis Din of our holy kehilla and under the supervision of the Rav of the beis medrash shlit"a. He then went into the beis medrash and viewed the davening rooms, the Aron Kodesh, and the mikvah.
Afterwards the Rebbe came to the Sheva Brachos celebration in the main hall of the beis medrash. Several niggunim were sung, and the Rebbe drank a lechayim and warmly blessed the chassan, the mechutan HaGaon, the rav of the beis medrash shlit"a, all the grandfathers and mechutanim, and the entire gathering. He delivered words of Torah on the topic of marriage and spoke in praise of the mispallelim of the beis medrash and the residents of the neighborhood, headed by the mechutan shlit"a. He urged them to conduct themselves as befits residents of Kiryas Joel, and especially urged the residents of the neighborhood to rent out apartments only to fellow chassidishe Jews, and concluded with his holy blessing. The Rebbe left the beis medrash at around 8:15.

Yechidus hours at the Rebbe's holy home on the Ohel Street were from 8:20 until 11:30 at night.

During the yechidus hours, a delegation of Chabad rabbonim came in and presented the Rebbe shlit"a with the newly printed complete Sefer HaTanya. A pleasant conversation ensued about the miraculous salvation of the holy Baal HaTanya zy"a, which took place on that day, 19 Kislev, and the Rebbe bestowed his holy blessing upon them.

During the yechidus hours, the Rebbe went down to the tenaim hall, where the Rebbe read the tenaim of the mechutanim:
- R' Dovid Chananya Weiss and R' Akiva Geshtettner.
- R' Shimon Brach Landau and R' Avrohom Chaim Heilbrunn.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 11:30.

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