Monday, 1st Day of Chol HaMoed Pesach, 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a entered the Beis Medrash HaGadol for Shacharis at around 9:50. Shacharis was led by R' Yoel Hirsch. For Hallel, the Rebbe sent HaGaon R' Shimon Panet shlit"a.

Those honored with the Torah reading: Pesicha: Rabbi Yoel Berger shlit"a and R' Yoel Landau. Aliyos. Kohen: R' Yudel Katz, Levi: the bar mitzvah bochur Yoel Landau, Shlishi: HaGaon HaTzaddik R' Chaim Elazar Weiss shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Chmelnik Monsey, Hagbah of the first Sefer Torah: HaGaon R' Aryeh Asher Indig shlit"a, Moreh Tzedek of Beis Medrash Maharsha, Gelilah: R' Yudel Schwartz, Revi'i: the Rebbe shlit"a, Hagbah of the second Sefer Torah: HaGaon R' Meir Siman shlit"a, Gelilah: R' Binyamin Yosef Meir Teller (Womsbag). Mussaf: R' Akiva Weinstock. The davening concluded at around 11:30.

In the afternoon, the bris took place in the Beis Medrash HaGadol for the newborn son of R' Shlomo Menashe Bittman, where the Rebbe served as sandek and mohel.

In the evening at around 8:10, the Rebbe davened Mincha in his holy home at 5 Kent Street. At the proper time, after Maariv, the Rebbe counted Sefirah before the amud.