"For you shall go out with joy"

In these moments the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a is leaving his holy home in Kiryas Joel on the way to the airport, from where the Rebbe shlit"a will fly to Iowa to visit our kehilla's mehudar shechita, accompanied by the HaGaonim, rabbonim of our kehilla in Williamsburg and Monsey shlit"a, and a few attendants.

On the way, the Rebbe shlit"a will stop in Yuma, Arizona, where the dayanim of our kehilla are waiting: HaGaon Rabbi Hersh Leib Bernstein shlit"a, dayan and moreh tzedek of our beis medrash Beis Menachem Tzvi, and HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Yitzchak Stern shlit"a, dayan and moreh tzedek of Dinov in Kiryas Joel, who head the harvesting of the mehudar wheat for the coming Yom Tov of Pesach, may it come to us for good. There the Rebbe shlit"a will, IY"H, be at the first cutting, and from there IY"H continue the journey to the shechita.

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Report: Monday–Tuesday, Parshas Beha'aloscha — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, Visit to Yuma, Arizona for the Wheat Harvest for the Mitzvah of Matzah, and to the Distinguished Slaughterhouse of Our Holy Kehilla in Postville, Iowa, for the Guests

On Monday at around 8:20 the Rebbe shlit"a entered the Beis Medrash HaGadol for Shacharis.
Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochur, the bochur Chaim Dovid Neustadt, and during krias haTorah the Rebbe went up for hagbah.

"And it was in the days of the wheat harvest"
At around 10:25 the Rebbe shlit"a left his holy residence in Kiryas Joel on the way to Teterboro Airport, accompanied by the Gaonim, rabbanim of our kehilla in Williamsburg and Monsey shlit"a, and a select few attendants. At 11:45, at an auspicious hour, the private plane took off for Yuma, Arizona. On the way, the Rebbe shlit"a engaged in the yeshiva shiurim on Maseches Bava Basra, and later learned the halachos of Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim in a chavrusa. On the flight there were also lengthy conversations on various halachic topics regarding the laws of ribis, and later regarding matters of the wheat harvest.

At around 2:00 in the afternoon in Yuma, Arizona (5:00 PM New York time), the plane landed at the nearby airport, close to the wheat fields, and the Rebbe and his companions immediately traveled to the field in a special Sprinter van.

Upon arriving at the field under a scorching sun of 115 degrees, already waiting were the dayanim of our holy kehilla: HaGaon Rabbi Hersh Leib Bernstein shlit"a, av beis din of our Beis Medrash Beis Menachem Tzvi, and HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Yitzchak Stern shlit"a, dayan of Dinov in Kiryas Joel, who head the distinguished wheat harvest, together with askanim and managers of our holy kehilla's bakery in Williamsburg and Kiryas Joel. Also present there were the dayanim of the holy community of Papa, sent by their Rebbe, the Papa Rebbe shlit"a: his grandson HaGaon Rabbi Yosef Grunwald shlit"a, son of the Gaon, dayan of Papa shlit"a, together with HaGaon Rabbi Moshe Yosef, son of the Gaon Rabbi Shmelka Friedman shlit"a, member of the kashrus committee of the holy community of Papa.

First, the Rebbe looked over the special water system, where its source has been sealed with a seal since the wheat began to ripen. The Rebbe inquired at length with the shomrim who have been in the field for the past weeks. Then the Rebbe shlit"a went over to the combine truck and made sure that all the places from which water could drip down were closed. He then climbed up onto the combine machine, with great personal effort, and with great emotion the Rebbe said "l'shem yichud" and "l'shem mitzvas matzah" and started the combine together with the Jewish driver, R' Kalman Eliezer Shalilof of Kiryas Joel, who is conducting the entire harvest, as the Rebbe shlit"a instituted the hiddur that it be done only by a Jew. The Rebbe checked the blade of the combine that cuts the wheat, and the Rebbe drove the combine in the field together with the driver, crossing the field several times back and forth for an extended period.

After the cutting, the Rebbe got down and went into a small shade tent that had been set up in the field, where the Rebbe and the group examined thousands of kernels and watched with amazement as the wheat was clean and pure, and not a single kernel was found sprouted or split, clean and beautiful, without any questions or doubts. The Rebbe explained the entire process of how the wheat grows, the power of growth, and how it becomes chametz, the problem of water once it is already in need of the ground, and the merits and hiddurim of the local wheat.

With holy emotion, they then sang the joyous melody "To keep Your statutes and to do Your will." The Rebbe thanked the entire gathering, and the harvest continued, as IY"H close to a million pounds will be harvested on an area of nearly 200 acres.

The Rebbe shlit"a traveled to a nearby hotel to rest for a few minutes from the great heat, and from there they immediately traveled to the airport. At 5:20 (local time) the plane took off on a two-and-a-half-hour flight to Postville, Iowa, to visit the distinguished slaughterhouse of our holy kehilla. On the plane the Rebbe shlit"a davened Mincha with a minyan, and then the Rebbe continued his shiurim in Maseches Bava Kama.

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In London, several workers from the slaughterhouse were waiting at the airport and transported the Rebbe and the entourage in their cars, a one-hour drive to the guest house. Upon arrival at approximately 11:45 at night, the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a davened Maariv.

"With this shall Aharon come into the holy place, with a young bull"

On Tuesday at dawn, around 6:00, the Rebbe shlit"a traveled over to the slaughterhouse, where the Rebbe warmly greeted HaGaon Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandl shlit"a, Av Beis Din of Nitra Monsey, the rabbinic supervisor of the slaughterhouse, and his son Rabbi Mordechai, who oversees the entire operation of the slaughterhouse.

The Rebbe changed into the necessary garments and immediately entered the plant, to the shechita section, and inspected the knives of all the shochtim, which he greatly admired. Afterwards the Rebbe stood for an extended time and observed the entire order of shechita, from when the animals enter the box, which is then turned over, and is slaughtered in the "shechita munachas" manner, and he marveled at the expertise of the shochtim.

After standing for an extended time at the shechita section itself, they went over to the lung inspection section. The Rebbe examined the lungs himself, and looked over several dozen lungs for an extended period of over an hour, and discussed with the rabbanim and the inspectors all the details and chumros that had been introduced with great care. In this way they went through all the branches of the slaughterhouse, and the Rebbe questioned all the mashgichim, each one about his role, regarding all parts of the animal.

Around 8:30 the Rebbe went over to the nikkur section and observed the entire apparatus for a long time. From there the Rebbe returned to the shechita section and once again looked over the entire procedure. Afterwards the Rebbe went in for a few minutes to inspect the knives at the poultry shechita of the slaughterhouse.

After a lengthy time of nearly 5 hours in the slaughterhouse, at approximately 10:30, the Rebbe went to the local mikvah and then davened Shacharis at the guest house.

Immediately after Shacharis they returned to the slaughterhouse, continuing to attend the sections of salting, soaking and rinsing, up to the packaging, with all the beautiful chumros and hiddurim that the Rebbe instituted there.

At approximately one o'clock the Rebbe bid farewell to the mashgichim at the slaughterhouse, and the Rebbe immediately traveled to the airport.
The Rebbe arrived at the airport at 2:15, and, b'shaah tovah u'mutzlachas, the plane took off at 2:30. On the way the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a ate a morning meal, and then related for an extended time memories from times past, regarding shechita and cutting wheat, how it was done in the old home and also after the war, the entire development of matters with all the improvements over the years, until the present day.

In the afternoon around 5:30 (New York time) the plane landed at Teterboro Airport, and the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a immediately traveled to his home in Williamsburg, arriving at approximately 6:45.
At 8:00 the Rebbe davened Mincha in his home, and afterwards there were times of entry to the Rebbe's room until 1:15.
At approximately 9:20 the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a spoke a few brief words of Torah through a hookup to the siyum of Yesodei HaTorah among the chassidim in Montreal.
Around 12:00 the Rebbe davened Maariv, and continued receiving the public.

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