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

This morning, before Shacharis, a bris took place for the newborn son of R' Yosef Katz, at which the Rebbe was the sandek.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the hall of the Yeshiva Ketana branch Yaitav Panim, under the direction of HaGaon Rabbi Chaim Leib Zilberstein shlit"a.
The Rebbe lit 5 candles and led the davening as chazan on the occasion of the yahrzeit of his grandfather, the holy Heitav Lev zy"a.
During the Torah reading, the Rebbe was called up for the third aliyah, and after davening the shofar was blown.

After Shacharis, a lechayim gathering took place in the beis medrash hall on the occasion of the hilula. Songs of inspiration were sung, and the Rebbe drank lechayim and wished the rebbeim and talmidim of the yeshiva well. He related holy stories about the greatness and perfection of the baal hilula zy"a, and concluded with his holy blessing.

During the morning hours, R' Yoel Shlomo Zaldan, manager of the Kiryas Joel bakery, and R' Baruch Yehuda Spitzer, manager of the bakery of our kehilla in Williamsburg, entered for a private audience together with HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Yitzchak Stern shlit"a, dayan of the Dinov beis medrash in Kiryas Joel and one of the rabbis who supervise the wheat harvests, to receive the Rebbe's blessing as preparations are being made in these days to sign the contract for the mehudar wheat fields in Arizona for Pesach 5786. The Rebbe asked about the details, gave various instructions, and bestowed his holy blessing.

Around 5:00 the Rebbe went to the cemetery for the levaya of Rebbetzin Adler a"h, wife of HaGaon Rabbi Asher Adler shlit"a, av beis din of Sereda Monsey, a longtime principal at Beis Rachel of our holy institutions in Monsey. The Rebbe delivered words of eulogy in praise of the deceased, who educated hundreds of students, and expressed the great sorrow of the family and of the students of Beis Rachel.

Private audience hours were from 6:45 in the evening until 12:00 at night, at his holy home on Ohel Court.

In the evening around 7:15 the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppah of the following mechutanim:
R' Yoel Hirsch - R' Gedalya Appel, at Kinor David hall.
R' Yoel Weinstock - R' Avrohom Yehoshua Glantz, at Ginas Klein hall.

After the chuppos, around 7:40, the Rebbe davened Mincha at his holy home. The Rebbe lit 5 candles and approached the amud.

The Rebbe shlit"a read the tenaim of the mechutanim R' Shimon Zev Klein - R' Yeshaya Binyamin Spielman.

The Rebbe davened Maariv around 12:00.

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