Sunday, Parshas Vayigash — 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Heichal HaMesivta, Kedushas Yoel branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim.
The bochur Yaakov Yehuda Mittelman.
The bochur Moshe Lenerowitz.
The bochur Yoel Frankel.
The bochur Chaim Binyomin Brach.
The bochur Eliyahu Goldberger.

After davening, the Rebbe learned the daily Tehillim shiur with those present and spoke about current matters. Afterwards, a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochurim in his private room.

In the morning, the Munkatch Rebbe's son, HaGaon Rabbi Chaim Elazar Rabinowitz shlit"a, Rosh Yeshiva of Munkatch, the son of the Munkatch Rebbe shlit"a, paid a visit to the Rebbe in his holy home in Kiryas Joel, to receive his holy blessings on the occasion of the wedding of his youngest son. A pleasant conversation took place, and the Rebbe bestowed his holy blessings upon him.

In the afternoon, the Rebbe shlit"a went up to the Heichal HaYeshiva, Divrei Yoel branch, where the Rebbe learned with a chavrusa from among the talmidim of the yeshiva in his private room. Around 5:00, the Rebbe davened Mincha in the yeshiva.

In the evening, the Rebbe shlit"a officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the following mechutanim:
R' Yoel Levy - R' Yitzchak HaKohen Friedman, at Kinor Dovid hall.
R' Yaakov Klepner (of Williamsburg) - R' Moshe Yitzchak Rosenfeld, at Beis Rachel Paradise hall.

After the chuppos, around 7:40, the Rebbe shlit"a went over to the halls of Keren V'Yoel Moshe to the siyum on Maseches Berachos by the Chaburas Ezras HaTorah of our holy kehilla. The Rebbe drank a lechayim and spoke words of blessing, that they should merit to increase Torah and glorify it and be able to complete the entire Shas. He concluded with his holy blessing to all the learners, and especially to HaRav Shlomo Hersh Kornbluh shlit"a, director of the chabura, and HaRav Yoel Weinberger shlit"a, director of Kvias Itim.

Afterwards, around 8:00, the Rebbe shlit"a went over to the Shaagas Aryeh neighborhood to the new 'Landau's Shaagas Aryeh Supermarket,' owned by R' Mordechai Landau and his son R' Shmuel Aharon. The Rebbe toured the store and then affixed a mezuzah at the main entrance. A lechayim gathering followed and a pleasant conversation took place. The Rebbe drank a lechayim and offered blessings to the owners of the store, to HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Halberstam shlit"a, rav of the Beis Medrash Beis Shmuel in the Divrei Chaim neighborhood, and to the entire public.

The reception hours in Kiryas Joel were from around 8:30 until 1:00 at night, in his holy home on Uhel Ct.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim at the tenaim hall in his holy home for the following mechutanim:
R' Wolf Landau - R' Hersh Elimelech Klein.
R' Yisroel Henoch Kraus - R' Avrohom Yitzchak Mertz.

The Rebbe davened Maariv around 11:50, and before davening he lit 5 candles in honor of the hilula kadisha of the Baal Divrei Yechezkel of Shiniva zy"a. After Maariv he continued receiving the public.

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