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

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in Yeshiva Gedolah, the Yoel Moshe branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Yosef Tzvi Grunfeld.

During the Torah reading, the Rebbe went up for hagbah. After davening, the Rebbe recited the daily Tehillim shiur, on chapter 32, verse 1. Afterward, a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochur in the Rebbe's private room.

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

In the evening, the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim:
- R' Berel Stein and R' Moshe Hersh Bernath at the Beis Rochel Paradise halls.
- R' Yoel Bri"i Schwartz and R' Aharon Yuda Koenigsberg at the Gineth Klein halls.

Yechidus hours were from 8:00 until 12:55 at night at the Rebbe's holy home on Ohel Court.

At around 8:50, the Rebbe went down to the new halls in his holy home, where the ceremony of affixing the mezuzah to the new halls took place, together with a gathering of askanim for the benefit of the Chasunah Takanos. The Rebbe's son, HaGaon Rabbi, the Av Beis Din of Kiryas Joel and its surroundings shlit"a, continued with his address. Afterward, several nigunim were sung.
The Rebbe drank a lechayim and blessed the entire gathering, and conveyed his holy words, expressing his great joy that two new affordable tenaim halls are being inaugurated. He said that the joy of a tenaim is great, since "the beginning is half of everything"; therefore, a tenaim, which is the beginning of the simcha, is itself a great simcha. He praised the askanim who brought this about and are working with all their strength to provide affordable halls for tenaim, weddings, and Shabbos sheva brachos, so that people can make a wedding more easily and with peace of mind. He said that, Baruch Hashem, Kiryas Joel has the most affordable halls in the entire world for all simchas, and that all of this is thanks to the askanim, as well as to all the mechutanim who come forward and are prepared to make simchas in an affordable manner, thus keeping expenses as low as possible. He concluded with abundant blessings for all the askanim.

Afterward, the Rebbe gave a gift to the heads of the Chasunah Takanos committee, R' Yaakov Eliyahu Reizman and R' Bentzion Eliyahu Zaldan. He then affixed a mezuzah with a blessing on the main entrance, and honored his son, HaGaon Rabbi, the Av Beis Din of Kiryas Joel and its surroundings shlit"a, as well as the donors and askanim, with affixing a mezuzah on the other doorposts. He then wished all the askanim well. It concluded at around 9:15.

Afterward, the Rebbe read the tenaim of the mechutanim R' Baruch Mendel Landau and R' Binyamin Blackman.

During the yechidus hours, the bochurim from the yeshivos ketanos of Kiryas Joel entered, who had raised over a thousand dollars each in the Pekudas HaKodesh campaign during the past bein hazmanim for the benefit of the Kiryas Yoel mosdos. The Rebbe gave each of the bochurim a gift, the sefer Lev Aharon on Maseches Avos, and wished them the Rebbe's holy blessing.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 12:55.

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