Sunday, Parshas Chukas-Balak, 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

This morning the brissen took place.
- For the newborn son of R' Shalom Yitzchak Scheer, where the Rebbe was sandek and mohel.
- For the newborn son of R' Chaim Hersh Beril Markowitz, where the Rebbe was sandek.
- For the newborn son of R' Yoel Asher Anshel Dresdner, where the Rebbe was sandek.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in Yeshiva Gedolah, Kedushas Yoel branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim.
- The bochur Chaim Moshe Elimelech Katz.
- The bochur Avrohom Lebowitz.
- The bochur Yoel, son of Mordechai Gross.

After davening, the Rebbe led the daily Tehillim shiur on chapter 31, verse 8. Afterwards a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochurim in his private room.

During the morning hours, the Rebbe went on his weekly visit to the mehudar slaughterhouse.

In the afternoon the Rebbe went up to the Yeshiva, Divrei Yoel branch, where the Rebbe learned with a chavrusa from among the talmidim of the yeshiva in his private room. At around 6:00 the Rebbe davened Mincha in the yeshiva.

The administration of Machane Beis Rochel entered the Rebbe's holy home, headed by the camp directors HaGaon Rabbi Eliyahu Shlomo Kohn shlit"a and Rabbi Meir Yosef Gross shlit"a, to receive his blessing before the summer season, b'ezras Hashem. They discussed the many facilities that were set up this year in the camps for the benefit of the thousands of Beis Rochel girls, and the Rebbe bestowed from his holy blessing.

In the evening the Rebbe officiated at kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim.
- HaGaon Rabbi Aryeh Asher Indig shlit"a, dayan and moreh d'asra of Beis Medrash Maharsha, and R' Chaim Shlomo Fischer, the shamash, in the Kinor Dovid halls.
- R' Moshe Strulowitz and R' Yosef Pinchas Schwartz in the Beis Rochel Paradise halls.
- R' Yechiel Yuda Friedman and R' Simcha Katz in the Ginas Klein halls.

Entry times at the Rebbe's holy home on Ehel Court were from 8:15 until 10:50 at night.

During the entry times, the administration of 'Mifal Torasa Umanuso' entered the inner sanctum together with several balabatim, members of the community who own large businesses and have already implemented it in their businesses. A fine conversation ensued about the tremendous accomplishment of the idea and the importance of the balabatim who recognize that when a worker's head is immersed in Torah, he works better during his other hours, and the Rebbe bestowed from his holy blessing.

Also entering were the members of the building fund committee of Beis Medrash Divrei Yoel of our holy kehilla in Williamsburg, headed by HaGaon Rabbi Yisroel Shlomo Lichtenstein shlit"a, dayan of the beis medrash, to receive his blessing on the completion of the purchase of a large lot for a new beis medrash with all its needs. They presented the plans for the new beis medrash, and a fine conversation ensued about the halachos of mikvaos. The Rebbe drank lechayim and bestowed from his holy blessing upon the HaGaon, the dayan of the beis medrash shlit"a, and the members of the building fund committee.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 10:50.

After Maariv, the Rebbe went over to the Kinor Dovid halls to the wedding simcha of the daughter of the shamash, R' Chaim Shlomo Fischer. A fine conversation took place; the Rebbe drank lechayim and wished the chosson, the mechutanim, the grandfathers and the entire assembly well. After bentching, the Rebbe recited the Sheva Brachos, and then danced a holy mitzvah dance before the kallah, and afterwards with the chosson and with the shamash, R' Chaim Shlomo, and his family. It ended at around 11:40.

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