Shabbos Kodesh Parshas Tzav – Shabbos HaGadol 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a in the midst of our holy kehilla in Williamsburg

On Friday night at around 7:50 the Rebbe entered the beis medrash wrapped in his tallis and went up to daven Mincha. Kabbalas Shabbos: HaRav HaChassid R' Chaim Heller. They finished at around 9:30. The tzibbur went over to wish a gut Shabbos, and the Rebbe went home to his holy residence next to the Beis Medrash HaGadol.

At around 10:10 the Rebbe came to the tish in the heichal haTorah together with the talmidim of the Yeshiva L'Tze'irim of Williamsburg.
- Hagbahas HaKos: HaRav R' Gavriel Gestetner shlit"a, rebbi in the Yeshiva L'Tze'irim.
The Rebbe shlit"a honored people with the zemiros.
- Kol Mekadesh: HaRav R' Gavriel Gestetner shlit"a.
- Menucha V'Simcha: HaGaon R' Yeshaya Gedalya Kaufman shlit"a, dayan in Krali, Williamsburg.

The Rebbe said Torah on the Midrash "The students of Rabbi Yose ben Kisma asked him: When will the son of Dovid come? He answered: 'This is the law of the olah offering,'" and explained it in the manner of a derush, in the sugya of whether one expounds semuchin.

- Kah Echsof: HaGaon R' Naftali Hirtzka Zwebel shlit"a, Rosh Av Beis Din.
- Birkas Hamazon: the HaGaon HaTzaddik, Av Beis Din of Williamsburg shlit"a.

Stories and anecdotes: This week the Rebbe shlit"a related about the holy Rebbe R' Asher'l of Ropshitz zy"a, whose yahrzeit falls on Wednesday, Erev Pesach.

- Kah Ribon Olam: the grandson of the Rebbe, Rabbi Elazar Teitelbaum shlit"a (London), son of the HaGaon HaTzaddik, Av Beis Din of Williamsburg shlit"a.
The new chasanim went over to take fruit. And a Sholom Zochor took place at:
- R' Yoshe the bochur Yitzchak Friedman.
- R' Shmuel Shaul Mittelman.
- R' Refael Yoshe Strulowitz.
- R' Shlomo the bochur Yoel Rubinstein.

- Az B'Yom HaShvi'i: the grandson of the Rebbe, Rabbi Avrohom Rokeach shlit"a, son-in-law of the HaGaon HaTzaddik, Rav of the beis medrash, Yisroel Shalom shlit"a.
They finished at around 12:45.

And on the day of Shabbos

On Shabbos morning the Rebbe entered the beis medrash at around 9:35.
- Brachos and Pesukei D'Zimra: R' Yoel son of R' Laub.
The Rebbe went up to daven Shacharis and Yotzer, and they sang at Mechalkel Chaim and Mimkomcha as is customary.

- Hotza'ah and Hachnasah: HaRav R' Shalom Levi Yitzchak Weissman shlit"a.
- Pesukei Shema Yisroel: HaGaon R' Yoel Hersh Kahn shlit"a, moreh tzedek.
- Baal Korei: HaRav HaChassid R' Yudel Wertzberger.
Aliyos:
- Kohen: R' Yoshe the bochur Yitzchak Friedman.
- Levi: HaRav HaChassid R' Yosef Lowy.
- Shlishi: the HaGaon HaTzaddik, Av Beis Din of Williamsburg shlit"a.
- Revi'i: HaRav HaChassid R' Yaakov Hersh Neustadt.
- Chamishi: HaGaon R' Yeshaya Gedalya Kaufman shlit"a.
- Shishi: the Rebbe shlit"a.
- Shevi'i: R' Yekusiel Meir Weissman, and the Rebbe named the baby girl in honor of the birth of his daughter, mazel tov.
- Acharon: the grandson of the Rebbe, Rabbi Elazar Teitelbaum shlit"a.
- Maftir: HaRav HaChassid R' Yitzchak Yuda Forgacs.
- Hagbah: HaRav HaChassid R' Yosef Leib Jacob (Yerushalayim).
- Gelilah: HaRav HaChassid R' Menachem Shlomo Rosenfeld.

- Musaf: HaRav HaChassid R' Moshe Yuda Hirsch.
- Introduction to Ane'im Zemiros: HaRav HaChassid R' Boruch Hersh Fleischman.
Afterwards the Nasi was read as is customary. They finished at around 12:45.

At the Shabbos day seudah in his holy residence, "Kindel" and "Nant" were sung as is customary on Shabbos HaGadol, and for bentching the Rebbe honored from the Shabbos Kodesh the HaRav HaChassid R' Shmuel HaKohen Friedman.

At around 5:50 the Rebbe entered for the Shabbos HaGadol derasha. The Rebbe wrapped himself in the tallis with a bracha, went up to the Aron Kodesh and davened a silent tefillah, and then began the derasha on the verse "This is the law of the olah offering," with a lengthy pilpul in the sugya of "positive time-bound mitzvos," which the Rebbe had learned in yeshiva, and then continued with words of derush and several explanations in the manner of aggada and mussar.
Afterwards the Rebbe spoke words of chizuk regarding matters in need of correction: we must fulfill Torah and mitzvos with effort and not allow ourselves to be swayed by today's comfortable Yiddishkeit. This applies to every mitzvah, to learning Torah, to davening, and likewise to chinuch of children: not to rely only on the mechanchim, but to constantly follow up and stay involved; to buy only proper clothing for the children, especially now that efforts were made so that boys' garments are buttoned from right to left, "the right hand of Hashem is exalted"; to stand guard regarding all women's clothing; extra care regarding hechsherim throughout the year and especially before Pesach, when all kinds of foods with good hechsherim are available, but they are not made for us; we must hold on to the mesorah of our forefathers and not eat all those foods. Regarding impure vessels, even if someone has a heter to use them, that is only for work; how can one not be ashamed to take them out in the beis medrash?
The Rebbe continued speaking about the difficult situation our brethren, the inhabitants of Eretz Yisroel, find themselves in, with no day and no night, constantly having to run to protect themselves from the bombs, which has unfortunately already cost many casualties physically and even more spiritually, rachmana litzlan. Ruach HaKodesh appeared in the beis medrash of the holy Rebbe zy"a, and the Rebbe learned from the holy sefer Al HaGeulah regarding the current situation, and wished that Hakadosh Baruch Hu should help that we be saved both from the murderers and from the "rescuers." The Rebbe continued and spoke out about the decree of drafting yeshiva bochurim in Eretz Yisroel and the decree regarding chinuch in New York, and concluded with words of preparation for Yom Tov Pesach and finished with his holy bracha to the entire tzibbur.
They finished at around 7:25. The Rebbe said Kaddish D'Rabbanan and went into his private room in his holy residence.

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The Rebbe entered for Tefillas Mincha at around 7:50.
- Baal Tefillah: HaRav HaChassid R' Yaakov Hersh Heiman.
- Hotza'ah and Hachnasah: HaRav HaChassid R' Shlomo Hersh son of R' Dovid Eckstein (Kiryas Joel).
- Kohen: HaRav HaChassid R' Moshe Leib Trager.
- Levi: HaRav HaChassid R' Avrohom Yitzchak Landau.
- Shlishi: HaRav HaChassid R' Dovid Eckstein of Eretz Yisroel, in Kiryas Joel.
- Hagbah: the Rebbe shlit"a.
- Gelilah: HaRav HaChassid R' Shmuel Hersh Spitzer.

The Rebbe honored the following with zemiros at Shalosh Seudos:
- Odeh: HaGaon R' Hersh Leib Bernstein shlit"a, dayan of Beis Medrash Beis Menachem Tzvi.
- Shir HaMaalos: HaGaon R' Moshe Rosenfeld shlit"a, dayan of Beis Medrash Berach Moshe.

The Rebbe said Torah on the Midrash "The students of Rabbi Yose ben Kisma asked him: When will the son of Dovid come? He answered: 'This is the law of the olah offering,'" and explained that through the mitzvah of milah, a person becomes attached to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and receives a vitality of kedusha, and consequently is not pushed away from kedusha, and teshuva is effective. He continued with preparation for Yom Tov Pesach and said that the mitzvah of matzah also has this segulah, that it brings a vitality of kedusha to be attached to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and draws down all good blessings.

- Yedid Nefesh: HaGaon R' Shalom Teitelbaum shlit"a, dayan of Vayoel Moshe.
- Kel Mistateir: HaGaon R' Dovid Hirsch shlit"a, moreh tzedek.
The Rebbe recited the bracha over the cup.

- Maariv Motzei Shabbos: HaGaon R' Dovid Hirsch shlit"a.
After Havdalah the tzibbur went over to wish a gutte voch. Then the Rebbe recited Kiddush Levana in front of the Beis Medrash HaGadol and wished "a good week, a good month and a good Yom Tov." They finished at around 10:00.

In his holy residence, the bochurim gabbaim of the "Shluchei Rebbe" campaign, run through the talmidim of the Mesivta for the benefit of the poor of Eretz Yisroel, came in together, before the holy journey to Eretz Yisroel last Cheshvan. The Rebbe distributed a gift, a beautiful matzah bag, to all the gabbaim and wished them his holy bracha.

At around 11:30 the Rebbe paid a shiva call to the family of HaRav HaChassid R' Mordechai Dov Lax a"h, and then traveled home to his holy residence in Kiryas Joel.
On the way home, rabbonim and members of the leadership of our holy kehilla in Yerushalayim, Bnei Brak, and Beit Shemesh connected with the Rebbe shlit"a and thanked him very warmly on behalf of all the chassidim living in Eretz Yisroel for the great support that the Rebbe shlit"a sent, as every year, in honor of Yom Tov Pesach to all the chassidim in Eretz Yisroel, in the fantastic sum of close to one million dollars.

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