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

This morning a bris was held for the newborn son of R' Meir Friedman, at which the Rebbe served as sandek.

The Rebbe davened Shacharis in the Heichal HaMesivta, Kedushas Yoel branch. Before davening, the Rebbe put tefillin on the bar mitzvah bochurim:
- the bochur Avrohom Eliyahu Friedrich.
- the bochur Yoel Eliyahu Glick.
- the bochur Yitzchak Hersh Spielman, may he live and be well.
- the bochur Dovid Menashe Kraus.

After davening, the Rebbe led the daily Tehillim shiur, on chapter 27, verse 3. Afterwards a lechayim was held with the bar mitzvah bochurim in the Rebbe's private room.

After Shacharis, the Rebbe went to visit the matzah bakery of Kiryas Joel, which began massive production last week in preparation for Pesach, IY"H, in order to meet the demand for the mehudar "Kiryas Joel matzos." The Rebbe looked around the entire bakery and heard a report on this year's fresh innovations from R' Yoel Shlomo Zaldan, manager of the bakery, and R' Dovid Eckstein of Eretz Yisroel.
The Rebbe then looked over the newly built wing, which was added this year to expand production for the benefit of the community, affixed a mezuzah, and bestowed his holy blessing.

Around 1:10 the Rebbe went to affix a mezuzah at the new mikvah in the Divrei Chaim neighborhood in the expanded Kiryas Joel. The Rebbe affixed a mezuzah, then went inside and looked over all the facilities and hiddurim, and heard a detailed report from the leading askanim of the committee for expanding the city's boundaries.
The Rebbe then walked over to a lechayim gathering at the home of R' Hershel Levy, donor of the land for the mikvah and member of the committee for expanding the city's boundaries, and looked on with satisfaction at the expansion of the holy city limits within the neighborhood. Also present was his father, HaGaon Rabbi Baruch Levy shlit"a, rav of the Binyan Ariel beis medrash in Amsterdam. HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Halberstam shlit"a, rav of our beis medrash Beis Shmuel in the Divrei Chaim neighborhood, spoke on behalf of the neighborhood's residents, as did R' Dovid Eckstein of Eretz Yisroel.
The Rebbe drank a lechayim, bestowed his holy blessing, and delivered words of Torah on the importance of donating money toward a mikvah. He told several stories about the importance of a mikvah, first about the Baal HaHilula, the holy Meor Einayim zy"a, who sold his share in the World to Come in order to build a mikvah, and then several stories about Tzanz and Shinova. He praised the donors of the mikvah, which cost a million and a half dollars, particularly the donor of the land, R' Hershel. He concluded with abundant blessings for all the donors, wishing that they all merit the World to Come and this world and all good things.
Afterwards several nigunim were sung, and the gathering ended around 1:45.

In the afternoon the Rebbe went up to the Yeshiva, Beirach Moshe branch, where the Rebbe learned with a chavrusa from among the yeshiva's students in his private room. Around 5:30 the Rebbe davened Mincha in the yeshiva.

In the evening the Rebbe officiated at the kiddushin at the chuppahs of the mechutanim:
- R' Chizkiyahu Tzvi Buchinger and R' Yehoshua Yitzchak Fürtha, in the halls of Kinor Dovid.
- R' Nosson Meir Lichtenstein and HaGaon R' Meir Yaakov Moskowitz z"l, in the halls of Beis Rachel Paradise.

Yechidus hours were from 7:50 until 11:30 at night at the Rebbe's holy home on Ohel Court.

Around 9:45 the Rebbe went down to the tenaim hall in his holy home, where the Rebbe read the tenaim of the mechutanim:
- R' Meir Falkowitz and R' Yitzchak Bernath.
- HaGaon R' Shlomo Yoel Maskowitz shlit"a, moreh tzedek in our holy kehilla in Williamsburg, and R' Nechemia Wertzberger.

During yechidus hours, the bochur Gershon, son of R' Yoel Frankel (Williamsburg), was tested by the Rebbe shlit"a on a thousand blatt of Gemara.

The Rebbe davened Maariv around 11:30.

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