Satmara Niyes

Monday, Parshas Yisro — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

At around 8:15 the Rebbe shlit"a entered for Shacharis davening in the local beis medrash.
- Baal tefillah: R' Moshe Stein
- Baal koreh: HaRav R' Yoel Hersh Rottenberg shlit"a (Williamsburg).
- Rishon: HaRav HaChassid R' Shlomo Moshe Klagsbrun.
- Sheni: HaRav HaChassid R' Avrohom Weider.
- Shlishi: the Rebbe shlit"a.
- Hagbah: HaRav HaChassid R' Shlomo Yaakov Neustadt (Kiryas Joel).

At around 12:50 the Rebbe shlit"a entered for Mincha davening. Baal tefillah: HaRav HaChassid R' Yisroel HaKohen Landau (Williamsburg).
After Mincha, the chassidim took their leave of the Rebbe shlit"a, and the Rebbe thanked the local Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Aharon Denenbaum shlit"a, who made the beis medrash and mikvah available to the Rebbe and to the chassidim who came to be in the shadow of holiness, and who stood at their assistance with all their needs throughout the past weeks.

Afterward the Rebbe set out on the way to Palm Springs International Airport, from where the private plane took off at around 2:30 on the way home to New York.

Along the way the Rebbe was engaged in his learning and wrote chiddushei Torah.

At around 9:10 the plane landed at Teterboro Airport. The assembled public went over to greet the Rebbe, and the Rebbe traveled on the way to Williamsburg to honor, as the guest of honor, the tenaim celebration of the eldest bride, his great-granddaughter, the daughter of HaRav R' Yoel Glantz shlit"a, a son-in-law of the Gaon Av Beis Din of Williamsburg shlit"a.

The Rebbe arrived at around 9:50 and first davened Maariv in the Heichal Meir Zelig in the great beis medrash. Baal tefillah: HaRav HaChassid R' Shlomo Zalman Stein.

At around 10:15 the Rebbe shlit"a entered the hall of our great beis medrash in the presence of thousands of chassidim who filled the beis medrash and shared in the Rebbe's simcha.

The Rebbe shlit"a was received with drums and dancing. The Rebbe greeted the mechutanim and the grandfathers, beginning with the eldest, and danced in place with great emotion to the songs "Kol Rinah," "Chasdei Hashem Ki Lo Samnu," and further songs of thanksgiving.

Afterward the father of the bride, HaRav R' Yoel Glantz shlit"a, spoke words of praise and thanks, "Shehecheyanu v'kiyemanu v'higiyanu lazman hazeh," and brought out how the brokos that the Beirach Moshe zy"a gave him from the depths of his heart at the time of his shidduch brought him to this day, and that the brokos will continue to accompany the coming generations as well.

Warm songs were sung of praise and thanks for the past, and of request for the future, with deveikus and elevation.

The Rebbe arranged the tenaim. Areiv kablan on behalf of the bride: HaRav HaChassid R' Avrohom Brach; on behalf of the chosson: HaRav HaChassid R' Shimon Katz.
Witnesses: HaRav HaChassid R' Yekusiel Dovid Aharon Weiss and HaRav HaChassid R' Moshe Goldstein.
Afterward the mechutan, the father of the chosson shlit"a, spoke.

For the reading of the tenaim, the Rebbe honored the eldest grandfather, his brother-in-law, the Gaon Av Beis Din of Boro Park shlit"a. Afterward the Rebbe wished mazel tov to the chosson, grandfathers and mechutanim, and separately the Rebbe wished mazel tov by telephone to the eldest grandfather, the Gaon Av Beis Din of Greenville shlit"a, who is in Arizona.

The Rebbe delivered a dvar Torah on the verse "Koh somar l'beis Yaakov v'sageid livnei Yisroel," and explained in the context of marriage that the strength of Avrohom Avinu enters every Jewish home and that this keeps the home holy. He spoke in praise of the distinguished chosson, "a talmid chochom, a yerei Shamayim," whom the Rebbe himself had already tested in the past on various areas of Torah, and wished abundant brokos to the chosson and kallah. He warmly wished mazel tov to his son, the Gaon Av Beis Din of Williamsburg shlit"a, and to the other mechutanim and grandfathers on both the chosson's and the kallah's side. Then the Rebbe continued with emotion, with words of praise and thanks to Hashem that we merit to see a shidduch from the fourth generation, b'sha'ah tovah u'metzulachas, and we thank Hashem "b'soch rabim a'halelenu," and he prayed that we should merit many more simchos with all the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and concluded with abundant brokos for the entire public.

Afterward the chosson said his pshetl and the customary singing was begun. Songs of simcha continued, and the Rebbe broke into a spirited dance with great joy together with the grandfathers and mechutanim.

At around 11:30 the Rebbe left the great beis medrash on the way home to Kiryas Joel. On the way out the Rebbe wished mazel tov to the kallah and the entire family.

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