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Monday17 Adar 57813/1/2021

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Report on the Hachnasas Sefer Torah Celebration #3

"And he made that day a day of feasting and joy"
"And Aharon raised his hands toward the people and blessed them"
"And he said to me: This is the table that is before Hashem"

After Mincha, the seudah of Lagmara shel Torah was set up for the broad public, in particular for "Ahavas Kadumim" in the Polish shul, in the great beis medrash for the avreichim and baalei batim, and in the Mivtzar HaKollelim for the choice bochurim in the Heichal HaTorah. During those hours, tens of thousands of Yidden came to extend wishes of mazel tov to the great baal simcha, the Rebbe shlit"a, as the lines stretched out into the street as far as the "Cheder David," where the Yidden entered with holy trembling to wish mazel tov.

At the time of Maariv, Maariv was davened with a vast crowd in the Heichal of the beis medrash, while awaiting the arrival of the great baal simcha and leader of the community. After Maariv, HaGaon Rabbi Avrohom Mordechai Malach, the badchan, performed with words of humor in honor of Shushan Purim. At around 7:30 the Rebbe arrived in the beis medrash, where they once again set out in fiery dancing in the joy of the Torah. The Rebbe washed for the Seudah of Lagmara shel Torah and the Shushan Purim seudah. During the seudah, the singer R' Yisroel Adler presented warm rhymed verses in honor of the Torah.

In the holy words that followed, which included lengthier words of Torah discourse and pilpul on the topics of Hachnasas Sefer Torah, the Rebbe once again davened with a heartfelt request: "Please, Hashem, save us; please, Hashem, grant us success," that we may sit in the house of Hashem all the days of my life and be engaged in Torah, and a request for his children and grandchildren: "May my offspring and the offspring of my offspring be talmidei chachamim." "One who attaches himself to those who perform a mitzvah is considered as one who performs the mitzvah." The Rebbe then said that all the participants are like those who perform the mitzvah, and that all the blessings and segulos will also apply to one who attaches himself to those who perform a mitzvah. The Rebbe then mentioned the difficult year that has passed upon Klal Yisroel, which began a year ago, and he brought out in praise the mesirus nefesh of Yidden in fulfilling the mitzvos, learning and davening with a minyan, despite all the difficulties, when the batei medrash, yeshivos and schools for boys and girls were closed. The Rebbe said in a voice choked with tears: "...I remember I came into this building in those difficult times when it was closed. I cried here in the beis medrash, where 2,000 Yidden daven Shacharis every day, learning and davening, Torah, avodah, gemilus chassadim. I came into the beis medrash and it was locked and sealed. The heart was torn." After a year, it must be brought out in the merit of the Jewish children who fulfilled the mitzvos of Hashem with mesirus nefesh. He then gave lengthier holy blessings, especially for the Yidden who need to be helped with lasting offspring, connected to the topics of Hachnasas Sefer Torah.

R' Yisroel Adler then once again sang rhymed verses about the "Minchas Bikkurim" that was presented to the Rebbe in honor of the day of his heart's joy: over "sixty thousand consecutive hours" of learning from thousands of bochurim of the community in every place, good kabbalos from over "two and a half thousand" talmidim of grades 6, 7 and 8 in our holy mosdos, and good kabbalos from over "five thousand" students of Beis Rochel in our holy mosdos. These were presented as a Minchas Bikkurim to our father and shepherd, the glory of the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, on the occasion of the day of his heart's joy at the celebration of the "Hachnasas Sefer Torah."
These are the finest gifts to present to the tzaddik, to rejoice in his joy and to revive his pure soul: those who learn and review with the students steadily, "Torah, Torah and good kabbalos"!!!
The Rebbe then delivered holy words. In them the Rebbe mentioned the greatness of the gifts of the students, who are called "banim," and honored all the Yidden who have already fulfilled the mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torah to gather funds for the Rebbe's fund "Avnei Chessed," as every year at the Shushan Purim tish. The badchan, Rabbi Avrohom Mordechai Malach, then performed once again with words of humor.

Fortunate is the eye that saw all this!!! Fortunate are we!! Happy are we!!
Fortunate are we, how good is our portion, to be part of such a kehilla!! With such a Rebbe!!
"Fortunate is the people for whom this is so; fortunate is the people whose God is Hashem."

"The heavenly beings rejoiced and the lowly ones exulted at the receiving of the Torah at Sinai."

One who has not seen this joy has never seen joy in his life.

May it be Hashem's will that this joy bring abundant blessing to us and to all Yisroel!!

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Report of the Hachnasas Sefer Torah Celebration #2

"Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter"

The joy and excitement could be felt in the air. All the benches, with all their wings, of the gigantic beis medrash were packed in black, filled beyond capacity, with tens of thousands of Jews pressed together. "The doorposts shook" as the Rebbe entered the beis medrash with the sefer Torah in his hand. Fathers lifted their children onto their shoulders so they could catch a glimpse of the tzaddik, while the beis medrash rose up in fiery hakafos and the Rebbe danced around the beis medrash like Simchas Torah, "its flashes are flashes of holy fire."
After dancing for a longer time, the Rebbe went up to the bimah, where warm melodies of Kabbalas HaTorah were sung, while the Rebbe held the Torah in his hands and wept with tears, "And enlighten our eyes in Your Torah." Among others, the entire Ahavah Rabbah was sung as on Yom Tov of Shavuos.
Then the Rebbe delivered a fiery address. The Rebbe explained, before all Israel, the letters of the holy forefathers, and that we believe what is written in the Zohar, that the holy forefathers come down to rejoice in the joy of their descendants, and they are also present. Oh, how can one take up the pen to describe how the pillar of the prayers of all of Klal Yisroel stands and pleads with the Ribbono Shel Olam like a son who importunes his father: "Master of the world, help me, that we, my descendants, and my descendants' descendants, may all know Your name and study Torah for its own sake," "that I may continue to sit in the tent of Torah, to spread Torah, to carry the learning forward to the conclusion in accordance with halacha." Afterwards the Rebbe used the time to arouse everyone to accept good resolutions: "We must continue the path of our forefathers and our Rabbeim without any change, both in the chinuch of boys and in the chinuch of girls." Not to have devices with WhatsApp and the like. He also addressed the women's section regarding all matters of tznius, and brought out that a woman can be an "ikeres" of the home (the mainstay of the home) or an "okeres" of the home (one who uproots it); everything depends on her conduct and how she carries herself.
He bestowed many abundant blessings in every respect, and explained what this has to do with Simchas Torah.

Afterwards they continued with melodies of arousal: "If I have found favor in your eyes, O King, let my soul be granted to me as my request, and my people as my petition," "Strive and increase supplication before the King, God, exalted and lofty."
After the hearts had been poured out, the entire assembly, led by the Rebbe, broke out in holy dancing: "Rejoice and be glad on Simchas Torah, for it is our strength and our light," "I am a servant of the Holy One, blessed is He, before Whom I bow, and before the glory of His Torah at every time," "And purify our hearts to serve You in truth," "May it be Your will that You open my heart in Your Torah." And then the "sixth hakafah." After dancing for a longer time, the Rebbe went up to the platform where the Aron Kodesh was, and fiery holy dancing broke out for the "seventh hakafah" with excitement and supreme joy. How magnificent was the sight when the Rebbe turned with the sefer Torah in his hands toward the open Aron Kodesh and threw himself into the Aron Kodesh, bursting into weeping, with tears, like a son who importunes his father, while the Tal melody of the holy Rebbe R' Mendele of Rimanov was sung. Then at 5:45 the Rebbe recited Ledavid Mizmor with great arousal, followed by Mincha, "in the multitude of people is the glory of the King."

Fortunate is the eye that saw a holy congregation rejoicing on Simchas Torah and in the joy of our Rebbe

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Report on the Hachnasas Sefer Torah Celebration #1

Torah, Torah, gird yourselves for the festival, and all came together into the covenant, saying as one, as one man, with one heart: "We will do and we will hear," to rejoice and be glad on Simchas Torah

"Rejoice and be glad on Simchas Torah, for it is our strength and our light"

Now, a full day after the historic, holy gathering of the Hachnasas Sefer Torah celebration led by our father and shepherd, the crown and splendor, the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, we can begin to collect our thoughts after experiencing this historic event, which will not be forgotten by the tens of thousands of participants. The heart is overflowing with emotion!! There is no need to give a report to the many thousands of Yidden who merited to experience it themselves, and for those who were not there it is impossible to truly convey it, but we will try to relate a little of the plain facts, as they were.

"Holy, holy" shall be said of him; fortunate is the eye that has seen these things

Fortunate are the eyes that merited to see the love of the Rebbe, the leader of Klal Yisroel, the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, who sits and toils, and has labored over the Torah day and night for seventy years, who lives with the Torah and is bound to the holy Torah!!

"From beginning to end it was one unit of deveikus, longing, uplifting of the soul, and holy excitement, with the fervor of Simchas Torah, like Yom Tov of Shavuos and Simchas Torah"

At around 2:00 the Rebbe arrived at the new Tenaim hall, "Pardes Pinchas," in the holy home of his grandfather, the Beirach Moshe zy"a, at Ohel Kt. There a private gathering, a lechayim celebration, took place for the royal family and the rabbonim and dayanim of our holy kehilla, together with the heads of our holy kehilla and its gabbaim in every place. Warm melodies of Kabbolas HaTorah were sung, and the inspiration was at the highest level, like Shavuos at "Ahavah Rabbah." Afterward the Rebbe drank a lechayim and wished the assembled gathering well, and then delivered warm words of Torah regarding the Hachnasas Sefer Torah. At the end of the address, with a voice choked with tears, he wept and pleaded with the Ribbono Shel Olam to merit toil in Torah, understanding of Torah, and upright, blessed, G-d-fearing generations.

This warm gathering was heard by the thousands of anash through the powerful speakers that were set up across all of Ohel Kt. and Garfield.

After the address the singing of warm melodies continued, and then the crowd broke out in fiery dancing as the Rebbe took the holy Torah and set out, with fiery holy dancing. After a few minutes the Rebbe handed the Torah to his brother, the Av Beis Din of 15 shlit"a, who led the Torah out of the hall. The Rebbe went upstairs and brought the Torah out with drums and dancing onto the balcony of his holy home and began dancing with the Torah back and forth with great fervor, while thousands of Yidden stood around his holy home and on the high bleachers, despite the rain, watching the holy service. Then the Rebbe handed the Torah to the Beis Yitzchak Spinka Rebbe shlit"a, then to his firstborn son, the Rav of Williamsburg, shlit"a, to his brother the Av Beis Din of 15 shlit"a, to the Dayan of Kiryas Joel shlit"a, to R' Aharon Mendel Terverski, the eldest son of the Skver Rebbe, and then to the sons and sons-in-law of the Rebbe and the sons of the Skver Rebbe.
The Rebbe took the Torah and went up to the magnificent chuppah set up on a special platform so that the public could participate. The Rebbe danced for several minutes and then honored the rabbonim and dayanim of our holy kehilla to dance with the Torah on the way to the beis medrash.

At around 3:30 the beis medrash was reached, where the emotional Kabbolas HaTorah gathering took place with tens of thousands of talmidim in our holy mosdos from all over New York. On the steps of the beis medrash stood in rows over 100 Sifrei Torah from Kiryas Joel, welcoming "the Rebbe's Torah," held by the elders and leaders of the community, members of the "Ahavas Kadumim" groups. The Rebbe went up to the special platform. "The oldest melamed in Satmar," the elderly HaGaon R' Akivale, may he live a long life, was present, having come with his weak strength to take part in the elevated event, and the Rebbe let him kiss the Sefer Torah. Then the Rebbe set out with fiery holy dancing, "Rejoice and be glad on Simchas Torah," for several more minutes. Afterward the thousands of children sang "V'ha'arev Na" and "V'haer Eineinu" and more warm melodies,

Please, Hashem our G-d, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of Your people, the House of Israel, and may we, our offspring, and the offspring of our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, all know Your Name and study Your Torah for its own sake

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Lechayim gathering now in the hall of our great beis medrash in Kiryas Joel after the "stirring Shehechiyanu event," in the presence of thousands of bochurim of our holy yeshivos, headed by the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a.
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The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a reciting the "Shehechiyanu blessing" with holy fiery fervor.

"Who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this time"
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The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a being called up to the Torah on the new Sefer Torah just now, in the presence of thousands of bochurim of our holy yeshivos.
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Map and instructions for the "stirring Shehechiyanu event" in the presence of thousands of bochurim of our holy yeshivos
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Our faithful father and shepherd, the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, stopped in the middle of dancing at the home of the chassid R' Avrohom Leib Brach, for a refuah shleima.
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"Who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this time"

Today, Monday, the "stirring Shehechiyanu event" takes place, at which the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a will daven Shacharis together with thousands of bochurim of our holy yeshivos, and at Krias HaTorah will be called up to the new Sefer Torah and recite the "Shehechiyanu blessing." After davening, a lechayim gathering will take place.

"Who has chosen us from all the nations and given us His Torah"
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"And in the assemblies of the myriads of Your people, the House of Israel, with joyous song Your Name shall be glorified, our King"

Today at the historic "holy Hachnasas Sefer Torah event"

One who has not seen this joy has never seen joy in his days
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At the holy tish, the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a honored, as every year at the Shushan Purim tish, to collect money for the Rebbe's fund "Avnei Chesed." This year, all the Jews who had already merited the mitzvah of "writing a Sefer Torah" were honored. Among others present was the Rav HaGaon Rabbi, Av Beis Din of 15, shlit"a.

"For now, language is too poor to report on the historic holy event. We hope in the coming days to report the dry facts."

Sunday16 Adar 57812/28/2021

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There is no word in my mouth and no utterance on my tongue

There are no words to express the feelings of the many tens of thousands of Jews who merited to experience the holy and awesome event, the "Hachnasas Sefer Torah celebration" of our father and shepherd, the crown of our heads, the glory of the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a!! A splendor that cannot be described!!! One thing can be written: "Torah, Torah, Torah"!! Fortunate are we that we have such a Rebbe!!
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One who has not seen this joy has never seen joy in his days
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Fortunate is the eye that saw a holy congregation bursting with joy over the Torah and over the Rebbe's simcha
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"And they all entered into the covenant together, declaring as one: We will do and we will hear"
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"Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted, eternal doors, that the King of Glory may enter"
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A righteous, blessed assembly, elders and youths pleasant in every row, gathered here today for the joy of the Torah

"Torah, Torah, gird yourselves for the festival. This is the day Hashem has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it; let us rejoice and be glad in this Torah": Tens of thousands of Satmar chassidim, elders and youths, in a festive, Simchas Torah-like spirit, are heading to the "exalted, awesome and holy historic celebration of the Hachnasas Sefer Torah" of the Sar HaTorah VeHayirah, Rabban U'Meoreinu shel Yisroel, our father and shepherd, the glory of the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, "All gathered and came to you to rejoice and be glad in the joy of the Torah." "Today, Sunday, Shushan Purim of the walled cities," in the heart of Kiryas Joel, the Rebbe will be escorted from his holy residence, the home of the Beirach Moshe zy"a, on the way to the "great and holy building in which our holy Rebbes zy"a davened, our great beis medrash in Kiryas Joel."

"A day that is entirely Simchas Torah": Many holy events, from the preparations for the Hachnasas Sefer Torah, the taking out and procession of the Sefer Torah, Kabbalas HaTorah through tens of thousands of bochurim, holy dancing, saying "Mazel tov," and the holy tish in honor of the completion of the Torah,

"And so the righteous will see and rejoice, the upright will exult, and the devout will sing with joy; those above rejoiced and those below exulted at the receiving of the Torah at Sinai"

"With our youth and with our elders we shall go, for it is Hashem's festival for us"


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