"Yom Teruah Yihiye Lachem" — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

After Alos, the Rebbe went to the mikvah and then returned home to his holy residence.

On the first day of Yom Tov in the morning, during the wrapping of the tallis, the tallis of the Rebbe zy"a, the Divrei Yoel, lay on the table; the Rebbe wears it during Mussaf.

At around 8:10 the Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash.
The Rebbe shlit"a davened his holy tefillos with awesome weeping. The sound of the Rebbe's weeping was heard throughout the beis medrash during the tefillos, especially at "Shir HaMaalos Mima'amakim" and at the piyut "Yarasi B'fatzosi." It shook the hearts of the thousands of mispallelim.

Pesukei D'zimra: HaGaon Rabbi Avrohom Shalom Friedman shlit"a, one of the heads of Mivtzar HaKollelim. Shacharis: the Gaon HaGadol, the Av Beis Din shlit"a. Shacharis ended at around 11:30.

After a short break, the Rebbe shlit"a entered wearing the kittel and silver kapel. Those honored with Hotzaah and Hachnasah were HaGaon Rabbi Naftali Brody shlit"a (Bnei Brak) and HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Meisels shlit"a, son of the Rav of Montreal shlit"a. The pesukim of Shema Yisroel: HaGaon Rabbi Yosef Hersh Sofer shlit"a, a rav in our kehilla.

The Rebbe shlit"a was the baal koreh, and read with great fervor.
Aliyos. Kohen: HaRav HaTzaddik Rabbi Yitzchak Tzvi Weiss shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Uhel, Boro Park. Levi: R' Elazar Gruber. Shlishi: the Gaon HaGadol, the Av Beis Din shlit"a. Revi'i: HaGaon Rabbi Wolf Brauer shlit"a. Chamishi: the Rebbe shlit"a. Hagbah of the first sefer: R' Nachman Fisch. Gelilah: R' Shimon Yisroel Kahana (Montreal).
Maftir: R' Meir Hirsch. Hagbah of the second sefer: R' Baruch Mordechai Oberlander (Montreal). Gelilah: R' Shmuel Dovid Friedrich. It ended at 12:00.

There was a pause. The Rebbe shlit"a went to the mikvah and then went home to his holy residence.

At around 1:15 the Rebbe shlit"a entered the beis medrash wrapped in the tallis, kapel and kittel of the Divrei Yoel zy"a, and beneath the kittel a white kaftan.
The Rebbe shlit"a went up to the Aron Kodesh, said a silent prayer, and began the festive drasha on the shofar blowing, on the verse "Yom Teruah Yihiye Lachem." A Jew can do many mitzvos and good deeds, and with one sin, chas v'shalom, the forces of evil can snatch everything away. One thing they cannot take is the learning of Torah. We ask of Hashem, who guards the Torah, that He fulfill the mitzvah of returning a lost object with regard to our lost mitzvos. Now, the opinion of the Rambam is that for an elder for whom it is not befitting his dignity, returning it is beyond the letter of the law. But if we conduct ourselves beyond the letter of the law, Hashem too will conduct Himself that way and return the lost object. And this is the tekiah while standing, which is beyond the letter of the law: if one uses the time for thoughts of teshuva, everything can be repaired. The needs of Your people Israel are many; Jews look forward to a good year; Jewish children need to be helped with salvations and cures. The coming year is auspicious for healing of body and soul. We are entering the year Tashpag, and "Tashpag" is the gematria of "V'haaleh Refuah Sheleimah." Jews need healing of the body and even more so healing of the soul. He concluded with abundant blessings. It ended at around 1:45.
After the drasha the Rebbe said Kaddish D'Rabbanan, and then the bris took place for the newborn son of R' Efraim Friedrich.

Then the Rebbe shlit"a went up to the bimah. The sifrei Torah were held by HaGaon Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Teitelbaum shlit"a (Boro Park) and R' Aharon Spitzer.
The Rebbe shlit"a began Lamenatze'ach, then recited Min HaMeitzar, made the brachos at the Rosh Hakodesh, and blew the tekiah while sitting. The baal makreh was the Gaon HaGadol, the Av Beis Din shlit"a.

The Rebbe shlit"a approached the amud for Tefillas Mussaf and said Hineni He'ani MiMaas, and began Kaddish at around 2:25.

The Rebbe shlit"a davened from a machzor of Nusach Tefilla Yesharah. The baal tokea for the tekiah while standing was HaGaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Shlomo Zevel shlit"a, rav of Beis Medrash Beis Dov.

Approaching the Aron Kodesh with awe, with Your people surrounding them like a wall, taking part in the holy service with awe and fear, with inspiration and holy emotion during Tefillas Mussaf, and especially during the pesukim of Malchiyos and Zichronos, Your people's eyes hanging and eyes yearning for You

Those honored with the openings of the aron during Mussaf were R' Yehoshua Wertzberger, then R' Shmuel HaKohen Friedman, then R' Yehoshua Mendlowitz, R' Berel Palatchek, and R' Yitzchak Moshe Frankel.
R' Wolf Glick and R' Shalom Yitzchak Weinberger were honored with lifting the Rebbe at Korim.
R' Yitzchak Ehrenfeld approached for "Kavei," and the opening of "Ne'im Zemiros" was given to R' Mordechai Nissan Greenwald.

Immediately after Mussaf, Mincha was davened. R' Aharon Spitzer davened before the amud. It ended at around 6:00.

At the afternoon meal in his holy residence, the Rebbe honored his grandson the bochur Yoel, son of the Av Beis Din of Sighet shlit"a, to sing the zemiros.

The Rebbe shlit"a said Torah on the verse "Ashrei HaAm Yodei Teruah" and explained that through the power of emunah one merits teshuva.

Birkas Hamazon was led by R' Moshe Falkowitz.

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