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

On Motzei Shabbos the Rebbe offered telephone nichum aveilim to the brothers, the Rebbes of Rachmistrivka shlit"a, who are sitting shiva for their mother, the Rebbetzin of Rachmistrivka a"h.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Yeshiva Gedolah branch, Kedushas Yoel. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Naftali Stern.

After davening, the Rebbe recited the daily Tehillim shiur on chapter 31, verse 2. Afterwards a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Rebbe's private room.

At about 1:00 the Rebbe traveled into Boro Park for the Chumash seudah of the students of our holy mosdos in Boro Park.
At about 2:45 the Rebbe arrived at the Beis Medrash HaGadol. The Rebbe entered the main hall of the beis medrash, where hundreds of the children's parents and grandfathers were present, among them many Rebbes and rabbanim. The Rebbe was welcomed by the students of the Talmud Torah with beautiful rhymes in honor of the occasion. Rabbi Yosef Binyamin Stern shlit"a, the principal, spoke, followed by the director of the mosdos, R' Aharon Veltz, and the Rav of the Yismach Moshe beis medrash shlit"a, the grandfather of one of the Chumash graduates, also spoke.

The children recited the verses of Chumash from Parshas Vayikra, led by the expert melamed Rabbi Yudel Wertzberger shlit"a. Afterwards all the children passed before the Rebbe, and the Rebbe distributed a siddur to each child.

The Rebbe drank a lechayim and gave blessings to the entire gathering, and delivered words of Torah in honor of the Chumash graduates, repeating the saying of the Chasam Sofer that a beginning is half of the whole, and that this is the great simcha of beginning to learn Chumash, a Yom Tov both for the children and for their parents, and he bestowed his holy blessing.
The event concluded at about 3:45.

Afterwards the Rebbe traveled to the site of our new beis medrash, Lev Aharon, where the actual construction work is beginning in these days. The Rebbe drove up by car, looked over the construction work, and gave his holy blessing to the members of the building fund committee.

From there the Rebbe traveled to the city mikvah, which was magnificently renovated by the esteemed brothers R' Mendel and R' Yechezkel Shraga Goldberger, sons of R' Yaakov Moshe Goldberger. The Rebbe toured the entire mikvah accompanied by the HaGaon Av Beis Din of our kehilla in Boro Park shlit"a and other dayanim of our kehilla, among them HaGaon R' Elazar Nisan Strahli shlit"a, dayan of the 36th Street beis medrash, who headed the project of renovating the mikvah, and HaGaon R' Yitzchak Trieger shlit"a, one of the leading experts in the laws of mikvaos. The Rebbe discussed various hiddurim and chumros in the laws of mikvaos, and at the end the Rebbe affixed a mezuzah on the main entrance.

Afterwards the Rebbe went up to a lechayim gathering in the home of the benefactor R' Yechezkel Shraga. A fine conversation took place about the history of the mikvah in Boro Park, which the holy Rebbe, the Divrei Yoel zy"a, built, and about various other mikvaos around the world. The Rebbe drank a lechayim and gave blessings to the benefactors and their families, to the dayanim shlit"a who were present, and to the entire assembly.

From there the Rebbe went to be menachem avel the family of R' Shlomo Yechiel Felberbaum a"h.
At about 4:50 the Rebbe set out on the way home to Kiryas Joel.

In the evening the Rebbe officiated at kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim:
- R' Yoel Berzl Indig and R' Yosef Chaim Polacek in the halls of Beis Rachel Paradise.
- Rabbi Yuda Stolzberg shlit"a and Rabbi Moshe Aharon Teitelbaum shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Lapish, in the halls of Ginas Klein.

The times for entering for kabbalas panim were from 8:20 until 11:15 at night in the Rebbe's holy residence on Ohel Court.

The Rebbe davened Mincha at about 8:50 and Maariv at about 9:50.
After Mincha the Rebbe went down to the halls in his holy residence, where the Rebbe read the tenaim of the mechutanim:
- R' Chaim Avrohom Weiss and HaGaon R' Wolf Aharon Teller shlit"a.
- R' Yoel Wolf Shehr and R' Elchanan Taub.
- R' Chaim Meir Ehrenthal and R' Yoel Sandel.

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