Night of Monday of Chol HaMoed – Ushpizin of Moshe, 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Rebbe davened Maariv at around 9:10 in his holy home on Zanz Court.

The Rebbe entered the shulchan hatahor in the large sukkah at around 11:00.
The Rebbe recited the Ushpizin order and washed, and the foods were served as on Yom Tov. The ushpizin sponsors placed wine, and after the meat course the ushpizin sponsors served kugels, and the Rebbe distributed shirayim.

With the Shir HaMaalos, the Rebbe honored:
- HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Meisels shlit"a, rav of the beis medrash Berach Moshe Sighet.
- His grandson HaGaon R' Zalman Teitelbaum shlit"a, rav of the beis medrash Beis Menachem Zev.
- HaGaon R' Yoel Oppenheim shlit"a, dayan of our beis medrash in the Zera Kodesh neighborhood.

The Rebbe said Torah on the verse "And for all the great awe which Moshe performed before the eyes of all Israel," and quoted from the Tiferes Shlomo that the reason Moshe Rabbeinu postponed Matan Torah by another day was to show Hashem and all of Klal Yisroel that Matan Torah comes with a condition: that Hashem decrees and the tzaddik annuls, the tzaddik decrees and Hashem fulfills. He elaborated and brought out that the reason Klal Yisroel left before the time was that, since Moshe Rabbeinu annulled the decree of the exile in Egypt, there is no longer any need for the other exiles to be completed, and one can leave the exile at any day. Moshe Rabbeinu prayed for Klal Yisroel and the prayers are still making an impression to this day, "his eye had not dimmed and his vigor had not fled," and we remain in exile only in the merit of Moshe Rabbeinu. He concluded with abundant blessings.

Birkas Hamazon: HaRav R' Dovid Moshe Rosenbaum shlit"a, rav of the beis medrash Tefilla L'Dovid Kretchnif.

After bentching, the Rebbe related memories from the tischen of the Rebbe zy"a, the Divrei Yoel, on Chol HaMoed Sukkos, and told how the Rebbe zy"a used to honor him at the Ushpizin of Aharon as a child with Shir HaMaalos and as a bochur with bentching. He also related how the Rebbe zy"a then told that his father, the Kedushas Yom Tov zy"a, had him as a child arrange grapes at the Ushpizin of Moshe, saying it was his ushpizin because of the verse "Vayoel Moshe." Afterwards the Rebbe stood up and danced for an extended time in honor of Simchas Beis HaShoeivah. It concluded at around 12:50.

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