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Ra'ava d'Ra'avin

The Satmar Rebbe shlit"a entered for Mincha and the third Shabbos meal at around 5:35. Mincha: R' Shimon Ozer Mittelman (Williamsburg). Removing and returning the Torah: R' Shalom Moshe Eckstein (Kiryas Joel). Kohen: R' Moshe Miller (Monsey). Levi: R' Yaakov Chaim Moskowitz (Williamsburg). Shlishi: R' Avrohom Moshe Landau (Williamsburg). Hagbah: the Rebbe shlit"a. Gelilah: R' Shlomo Moshe Klagsbrun.

At the third Shabbos meal, the Rebbe shlit"a honored the following with the zemiros. Odeh: R' Yehoshua Mendlowitz. Shir HaMaalos: R' Shalom Yitzchak Jacobowitz.

During the Torah discourse, the Rebbe shlit"a based his words on the verse "Then Moshe and the children of Israel sang," and explained that at the sea the Egyptians were punished five times as much, measure for measure, for their evil thoughts against Jewish children. From this the Jews took a lesson about the gravity of a thought alone, that the damage reaches the soul, and that the rectification for it is to perform mitzvos and good deeds with greater thought and inner feeling of the heart. The Rebbe spoke at length with words of mussar, as we are in the days of Shovavim, saying that one must do teshuva even for thoughts, which is accomplished by performing mitzvos with greater concentration, and to accept upon oneself to be careful against sins in speech, in deed and in thought.

Yedid Nefesh: R' Yaakov Chaim Moskowitz. Kel Mistateir: R' Yitzchak Teitelbaum (Kiryas Joel). The Rebbe shlit"a made a blessing over the cup.

Maariv of Motzei Shabbos: R' Moshe Zushe Neustadt. After Havdalah, people went over to wish a good week, and it concluded at 8:00.

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Shabbos Kodesh, Parshas Beshalach, Shabbos Shirah — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a, in the resort town of Palm Springs, California, yichyeh.

Friday afternoon at around 3:45, at the visible sunset, the Rebbe shlit"a ceased from melacha, as is his custom.

At around 5:40 the Rebbe shlit"a entered the local beis medrash wrapped in his tallis and approached Mincha. Kabbalas Shabbos: R' Shmuel Wasserman (Williamsburg).

The davening ended at around 7:10. After davening, everyone went over to wish a "Gut Shabbos," and the Rebbe shlit"a walked home to his holy residence.

At the Shalom Aleichem in his holy residence, which began at around 9:10, the Rebbe spoke in stories of the Kedushas Yom Tov and the Eitz Chaim zy"a. The Rebbe shlit"a honored people with the zemiros. Kiddush: HaGaon Rabbi Ezra Moshe Chaira shlit"a, moreh tzedek in our kehilla in Williamsburg; Menucha V'Simcha: R' Avrohom Weider.

The Rebbe shlit"a said Torah on the verse "Vayehi b'shalach Pharaoh es ha'am" and explained, in the manner of a derush, the sugya of "aseh docheh lo sa'aseh."

Kah Echsof: R' Moshe Zushe Neustadt (Kiryas Joel). Birkas Hamazon: HaGaon Rabbi Hersh Elimelech Teitelbaum shlit"a, rav of Beis Medrash Tefilla L'Moshe of our holy kehilla in Boro Park.

Stories: This week the Rebbe shlit"a told of the holy Pnei Yehoshua zt"l, whose yahrzeit falls on Sunday, 14 Shevat. Kah Ribon Olam: R' Simcha Yosef Wiesenfeld (Williamsburg); Az B'Yom HaShevi'i: R' Aharon Yosef Weiss (Williamsburg). They then continued dancing "b'bik'acha Yam Suf" in honor of Shabbos Shirah. It ended at around 10:45.

U'v'Yom HaShabbos Kodesh

On Shabbos Kodesh morning the Rebbe shlit"a entered at 9:45. The Rebbe shlit"a led the davening before the amud for Pesukei D'Zimra and Shacharis in honor of Shabbos Shirah. The Rebbe recited Hallel HaGadol and Shirah verse by verse, as is the custom. The Rebbe sent HaGaon Rabbi Hersh Elimelech Teitelbaum shlit"a to the amud for the loud recitation of Shema.

Before the Torah reading, R' Moshe Falkowitz made the appeal for the beis medrash and sold all the aliyos.

Hotzaah, Hachnasah and the verses of Shema Yisroel: R' Abba Klein (Boro Park). Baal Koreh: R' Yehoshua Mendlowitz, a mispallel of the Shabbos minyan.

Aliyos. Kohen: R' Chaim Shaul Kahn (Kiryas Joel); Levi: the bochur Yoel Tirnauer (Williamsburg); Shlishi: HaGaon Rabbi Hersh Elimelech Teitelbaum shlit"a; Revi'i: the bochur Alter Baruch Gefen, a mispallel of the Shabbos minyan; Chamishi: HaGaon Rabbi Ezra Moshe Chaira shlit"a; Shishi: the Rebbe shlit"a.

The Rebbe's aliyah was purchased by R' Moshe Zushe Neustadt. After the aliyah, the Rebbe thanked him and told him to have a Mi Sheberach made. The Rebbe also had a Mi Sheberach made for his grandson Rabbi Pinchas Mordechai Meizlish shlit"a on the birth of his daughter, mazel tov.

Shevi'i: R' Aharon Yosef Weiss; Hosafah: R' Shalom Yitzchak Jakobowitz (Williamsburg); Acharon: R' Moshe Baruch Zilber shlit"a, son of the Gaon Av Beis Din of Friedman shlit"a; Maftir: R' Avrohom Weider; Hagbah: R' Moshe Zushe Neustadt; Gelilah: R' Simcha Yosef Wiesenfeld.

Mussaf: R' Moshe Falkowitz; Pesichah for Ani'im Zemiros: R' Avrohom Moshe Landau (Williamsburg).

After davening a Kiddush was held in honor of the simcha of the Kiddusha Rabbah of the Rebbe's granddaughter, the newborn daughter of Rabbi Pinchas Mordechai Meizlish shlit"a, son-in-law of the Gaon, rav of Beis Medrash Yismach Moshe shlit"a. The Rebbe made Kiddush and joyous nigunim were sung. Afterward the Rebbe drank a lechayim and wished the families blessings of kodesh and simcha in Jewish homes. It ended at 1:00.

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Part 2, Parshas Beshalach — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a in the resort town of Palm Springs, California

Wednesday

At around 8:30 the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a entered for Shacharis in the local beis medrash. After davening, a lechayim was held in honor of the simcha of the bris milah of the Rebbe's great-grandson, born to his grandson Rabbi Meshulam Zushe Rosenbaum shlit"a, son-in-law of HaGaon Rabbi Chaim Dov Ber shlit"a, Rav of the Even Tzedek beis medrash. The Rebbe drank lechayim and bestowed his holy blessings upon the entire assembly.

Afterwards the Rebbe walked home, during which a beautiful conversation was held about stories of the Baal HaTanya and his descendants up to the Maharayatz, whose yahrzeit fell that day, and about the differences in the stringencies and methods of how a mikvah is certified as kosher.

In the late morning hours, at around 11:15, the Rebbe went for a walk amid the green pastures, where wonderful conversations were held in words of Torah and stories of tzaddikim. Among other topics, the Rebbe spoke about the avodah of the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples in traveling about and uplifting simple Jews toward Yiddishkeit, and about the minhag of naming a child after parents and rebbes.

In the evening at 5:30 the Rebbe entered for Mincha. Between Mincha and Maariv the Rebbe engaged in Torah study at his place in the beis medrash, and at the time of Rabbeinu Tam Maariv was davened.

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