A series of festive Chumash celebrations for young boys in several Hasidic communities were held over the past days, with major rabbis and admorim attending across Bnei Brak, Netanya, and other cities. The main event described in the lead article took place on Sunday in the Great Study Hall of the Sadigura Hasidic court in Bnei Brak, where the court’s president, the Sadigura Rebbe, joined a distinguished group of rabbis, including the Modzitz and Biala Yashrei Lev rebbes, whose descendants study in the community’s Talmud Torah.
The article also highlighted other celebrations and gatherings in the Hasidic press. In Netanya, children of the Talmud Torah of the Tzanz court were honored at a Chumash party, with the children kissing their Chumashim with joy. In Bnei Brak, the Nadvorna court held its own Chumash celebration, where the Nadvorna Rebbe distributed the Chumashim of Vayikra and watched the children sing and dance. In another event at the Sefat Emet framework in the Sefardic-Hasidic world, the Biala Rebbe and the Dzikov Vizhnitz Rebbe came to celebrate the marriages of their descendants.
The roundup also reported additional Hasidic developments, including a closed l’chaim at the private home of the Satmar Rebbe, where philanthropist Lipa Friedman reportedly donated $3.5 million for institutions in Kiryas Joel in memory of his father, the late meshbakh R. Moshe Friedman. Elsewhere, the Dushinsky Rebbe ordered continuous Torah study shifts from 6 a.m. to midnight in response to the draft issue, while the Bobov court marked a brit ceremony and a dramatic krishmalenen reading beside the baby’s cradle. The article also mentioned a major Hasidic demonstration near Military Prison 10, where thousands gathered behind Gur leadership to protest arrests of yeshiva students.
