Wednesday, Parshas Eikev — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

In the morning after the mikvah, at around 9:20, the Rebbe shlit"a set out on his annual visit to the summer camps of our holy institutions of Williamsburg and Boro Park.

At around 10:10 the Rebbe shlit"a arrived at the Bochurim Camp, Machane Rav Tuv, in Swan Lake. The Rebbe shlit"a davened Shacharis together with the hundreds of talmidim of the preparatory class for yeshiva, the ninth grade, of Williamsburg and Boro Park. The Rebbe put on tallis and tefillin in the beis medrash. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim.
The bochur Avrohom Goldberger.
The bochur Yochanan Mann.
The bochur Yoel Schwartz.
After davening, a lechayim gathering with the bar mitzvah bochurim took place in the Rebbe's private room.

Afterward the Rebbe went to a breakfast at the home of R' Aharon Weinberger, in the camp's lodgings. There the signing of the documents also took place, in which R' Aharon purchased the merit of the mikvah in our beis medrash in the Quickway Hill neighborhood in the Kiryas Joel area. The Rebbe signed the documents together with the benefactor, drank a lechayim, and bestowed his holy blessings.

At around 1:30 the Rebbe returned to the bochurim camp in Swan Lake and entered the batei medrash where the bochurim learn. The Rebbe looked around with great satisfaction, walking among the tables and listening to the bochurim recite their learning, first in the beis medrash of the ninth-grade talmidim of our holy institutions of Williamsburg, under the direction of HaGaon Rabbi Yehuda Ber Teller shlit"a, and then in the beis medrash of the ninth-grade talmidim of our holy institutions of Boro Park, under the direction of HaGaon Rabbi Akiva Yosef Kahana shlit"a.

On the way up, the Rebbe went over to the children of the camp and distributed sweets to the children.

Afterward a lechayim gathering took place with the bochurim in the beis medrash. Rhymes were sung, and the Rebbe drank a lechayim, bestowed his holy blessings, and delivered longer holy words of guidance to the bochurim. It concluded at around 2:40.

From there the Rebbe shlit"a traveled to the Boys' Camp, Machane Rav Tuv, in Monticello. The Rebbe went up to the batei medrash of the older grades: the branch of Rabbi Yoel Stern shlit"a, the branch of Rabbi Yoel Meir Friedman shlit"a, the branch of Rabbi Zerach Shapira shlit"a, and the branch of Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Green shlit"a. For nearly an hour he walked among the children, looking over their learning with great satisfaction and listening to the children recite.

Afterward the Rebbe visited the cheder classrooms of grades 1, 2 and 3.

After the visit to the batei medrash, all the talmidim gathered in the dining hall for a welcome ceremony. On the way up to the dining hall, the Rebbe greeted with a special blessing the converts who recently converted through HaGaon HaTzaddik, the Av Beis Din of Sanjorge shlit"a.
The children welcomed him with song and music, and then sang warm rhymes in honor of the occasion. The Rebbe drank a lechayim and offered blessings to the talmidim, and then delivered holy words of mussar and chizuk. Afterward the Rebbe distributed shirayim to the melamdim to distribute to all the children.

Before leaving the camp, the Rebbe specially called over his great-grandchildren among the camp's talmidim and gave them money.

At around 4:40 the Rebbe left the camp, as the children stood lined up on both sides of the camp and wished him a good year of being written and sealed for good.

On the way, the Rebbe made a phone call to visit the sick, to R' Yehoshua Tzvi ben Sheril and his son, the chassan Baruch Bendit ben Chana Gittel Glick, for a complete recovery, who were among the wounded in the terror attack this past Motzei Shabbos in the holy city of Yerushalayim. The Rebbe spoke privately with each one, inquired about their state of health, and bestowed his holy blessing for a complete and total recovery speedily and soon.
At around 5:00 the Rebbe arrived at Machane Beis Rochel, where a cornerstone-laying ceremony took place for the new dormitory building that will house close to four hundred students. The Rebbe went immediately to the open field where thousands of Beis Rochel students had gathered, along with the spiritual and material administration and also the kollel members of the camp. Rabbi Eliyahu Shlomo Kahn shlit"a, director of Beis Rochel, spoke and warmly welcomed the Rebbe shlit"a. The Rebbe then delivered holy words of guidance to the students, spoke about the students' trait of kindness in the camp and about the new building being built, praising the administration, and concluded with abundant blessings for the administration and the benefactors.

Afterward Rabbi Eliyahu Shlomo shlit"a recited the chapters of Tehillim, chapters 30 and 121, which the Divrei Yoel zt"l had instructed to be said at the laying of a cornerstone, at the Beis Medrash HaGadol in Kiryas Joel in the summer of 5736. Then the Rebbe shlit"a laid the cornerstone, poured the foundations, and davened a silent prayer for a longer time.

After the pouring of the foundation stone, R' Meir Hirsch, of the administration of the institutions in Kiryas Joel and one of the heads of the camp, spoke. Then the Rebbe honored the rabbanim of the camp, the administration and the benefactors with pouring the cornerstone, and afterward the Rebbe distributed to all the members of the camp's kollel the sefer Lev Aharon - Devarim, and warmly bestowed his holy blessing.

It concluded at around 5:45, and the Rebbe traveled home to his residence in Kiryas Joel.

In the evening the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the mechutanim R' Yaakov Moshe Wertzberger - R' Avrohom Shmuel Gutman, at Ulam Beis Rochel Paradise.

The times for entering for yechidus were from 8:00 until 12:00 at night.

At around 8:30 the Rebbe davened Mincha at his residence on Ohel Court.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim in the tenaim hall at his residence for the following mechutanim.
R' Yoel Pollack (Williamsburg) - R' David Chaim Moskowitz.
R' Shlomo Eliyahu Weiss - R' Yoel Berish Falkowitz.

The Rebbe shlit"a davened Maariv at around 12:00 at his residence.

At around 12:50 the Rebbe shlit"a arrived at the Beis Medrash HaGadol of Vizhnitz Monsey for the wedding simcha at the home of his brother-in-law, the Skver Rebbe shlit"a, a grandson of the Vizhnitz Monsey Rebbe shlit"a and of HaGaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Yaakov Eliyahu Unsdorfer shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Rosh Chochma in Montreal. The Rebbe drank a lechayim and warmly wished mazel tov to the chassan, the mechutanim and the grandfathers, and went out to dance with the chassan and then in a mitzvah dance with the grandfathers and mechutanim, and in a special dance with his brother-in-law the Skver Rebbe shlit"a, then with the Vizhnitz Monsey Rebbe shlit"a, and then with his friend the Av Beis Din of Rosh Chochma shlit"a. At around 1:15 he traveled home to his residence in Kiryas Joel.

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