Thursday, Blessing — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

This morning a bris took place for the newborn son of R' Yaakov Yoel Dresdner at the home of his father, R' Baruch Yuda, where the Rebbe served as sandek.
Afterward, the Rebbe paid a shiva visit to R' Baruch Yuda and his brother R' Yoel Aharon, who are sitting shiva for their father, R' Shmuel Mordechai Dresdner a"h.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Beis Medrash HaGadol. Before davening, a bris took place for the newborn son of R' Chaim Yosef Shimshon Shmaya, where the Rebbe served as sandek.

The Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim:
- The son of HaGaon Rabbi Mordechai Hirsch shlit"a, a member of the Beis Din.
- The bochur Aharon Gold.
- The bochur Yoel Berdl Greenfeld.
- The bochur Yisroel Meir Rosenfeld.
During the Torah reading, the Rebbe was called up as Shlishi. After davening, a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochurim in the Rebbe's private room.

In the afternoon hours, the Rebbe went on his weekly visit to the mehudar slaughterhouse.

At around 6:15, the Rebbe davened Mincha in his holy home on Zanz St.
After Mincha, a bris took place for the newborn son of R' Aryeh Buchinger (Montreal), where the Rebbe served as sandek.
Afterward, a lechayim gathering was held. A fine conversation ensued about the connection between the mitzvah of bris milah and Yom Tov of Sukkos. The Rebbe drank a lechayim and bestowed his holy blessing.

At around 8:00, a siyum on the writing of a Sefer Torah took place in the Rebbe's holy home on Zanz St. The Torah was written by the Rabbani, the philanthropist R' Yoel Epstein, one of the leaders of our holy kehilla, and it will be presented during Chol HaMoed in Beis Medrash Ovdei Hashem at the Pebewood company in New Jersey. The Rebbe wrote in several letters and honored R' Yoel with writing in the final letters. A fine conversation ensued; the Rebbe drank a lechayim and bestowed his holy blessing. In addition, he gave him a gift of a sefer, an esrog-case of the sofer from his own treasury, and wrote in abundant blessings as an expression of gratitude for his many donations to all the holy institutions of our holy kehilla and our mosdos, and especially for the building of the magnificent new sefarim room in the Rebbe's holy home.
The Rebbe went for hagbah and danced with the open Sefer Torah. R' Hersh Elimelech Eckstein, his father-in-law, was honored with gelilah, and R' Efraim Yosef Epstein, his father, was honored with putting on the crown of the Torah. The Rebbe continued with the dancing, and honored R' Yoel and his grandfathers to dance. It concluded at around 8:20.

Afterward, the Rebbe went over to the great sukkah of the Beis Medrash HaGadol, where the Rebbe put on the schach in honor of Yom Tov of Sukkos. The Rebbe exerted himself with great effort, going up on the lift and placing the schach above the place where the Rebbe sits during the tish at the Yom Tov seudos. Afterward, the Rebbe bestowed his holy blessing on the askanim and on the sukkah's benefactor, the Rabbani, the philanthropist R' Yuda Weiss. The Rebbe left the sukkah at around 8:30.

Entry times for kvitlach were from 8:35 until 12:10 at night in the Rebbe's holy home on Uhel St.

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 12:10. Before Maariv, the Rebbe lit candles in honor of the holy hilula of the holy Kozhnitzer Maggid zy"a.

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