Report, Wednesday, Parshas Vayeira, 'B'tzeil HaKodesh' with the Satmar Rebbe shlit"a - Trip to Visit the Shechita in the State of Uruguay

At 6:30 in the morning the Rebbe shlit"a traveled from the guesthouse to the mehudar slaughterhouse.

First, the Rebbe shlit"a went in to view the gigantic area of the plant at the packaging and was shown all of its sections. The Rebbe was tremendously impressed, both by the practical side and by all the parts that touch on the halacha of kashrus, which is carried out with the greatest measure of hiddur.

From there the Rebbe shlit"a went over to the bedikas kreisim (examination of the intestines), where the Rebbe and the rabbanim observed for a longer time how it is examined.

From there they went over to the shechita apparatus. The Rebbe examined the knives, which were perfectly smooth according to the high standards that the Rebbe shlit"a introduced. The Rebbe observed for a longer time the entire order of the shechita with all its stages, the double box where two animals enter, and watched the three shochtim and a bodek yavesh standing at the stand, with all the chumros and hiddurim that the Rebbe introduced for shechita of large animals for our holy kehilla.

Afterward the Rebbe went over to the sections of the examinations, the internal examination and the external examination, and then continued to the nikur cham (hot deveining). Everything was at the highest standard, b'siyata d'Shmaya.

It was already 10:45. After more than four hours of the Rebbe going around the entire plant with great physical exertion, the Rebbe left the place and returned to the guesthouse.

After a short break the Rebbe went back to the plant building and entered the offices, to the owner, and thanked him warmly and expressed his amazement at the full chumros and hiddurim that are made possible here. He said, "One has not yet seen such a successful plant where all kinds of hiddurim and chumros can be carried out so easily. It is so beautiful that I feel like coming back again, even though it is so far and with such effort." In addition, the Rebbe thanked him for his devotion in building an entire guesthouse complex for the shochtim, with beautiful bedrooms, magnificent facilities, and a beautiful beis medrash as well, which brings the shochtim and bodkim a rare sense of ease.

From there the Rebbe went up to the mikvah in the plant, and then davened Shacharis with some of the shochtim in the beis medrash of the guesthouse.

After davening the Rebbe said to the shochtim, "I did not believe what a mehudar operation takes place here, and I did not want to approve this place without it, since I know that I will have such a distinguished, upright staff of shochtim, bodkim and mashgichim." Afterward the shochtim went in to the Rebbe one by one.

Later the Rebbe shlit"a telephoned the Nirbator Rav shlit"a to thank him, and complimented him on the effort he invested in establishing such a mehudar system of shechita for the sake of Heaven and for glory.

In the afternoon at around 4:15 the Rebbe shlit"a davened Mincha.
After Mincha the Rebbe shlit"a bid a heartfelt farewell to all the shochtim.

From there they traveled to the local airport, a 45-minute drive, from where the private plane took off and flew for 25 minutes to Argentina.

At the airport in Argentina a fine crowd of community members was waiting, and the Rebbe received the community one by one. Afterward Maariv was davened.

After Maariv they boarded the plane, which took off at 10:48 local time.
During the first hours on the plane the Rebbe shlit"a engaged in Torah study. Afterward the Rebbe shlit"a discussed the entire order of shechita at length with the rabbanim shlit"a, and expressed his admiration at how beautiful and mehudar the entire plant was, and at the efforts that the Nirbator Rav shlit"a had already invested in that place in the past to raise the standard of kashrus.

Today, Thursday, at 7:08 in the morning the plane landed at JFK Airport, from where the Rebbe shlit"a traveled home to Kiryas Joel, arriving at 9:25.

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