Hasidic courts and rabbinic families mark a crowded Shabbat of commemorations and celebrations
This Shabbat is packed with yahrzeit observances, wedding-related celebrations, and travel plans across Hasidic courts and yeshiva circles, alongside prayers for the sick and the wounded. The timing is especially significant in Kretschnif, where the court will observe the Shabbat before the 57th yahrzeit of Rabbi David Moshe of Kretschnif, which begins on Tuesday, under his son and successor in Kiryat Kretschnif, Rehovot.
Several courts are marking memorial Shabbatot. In Sanz-Savran, the rebbe will hold his Shabbat table in Jerusalem at the beit midrash on Aviatar HaKohen Street, and a central seudat hillula with sheva berakhot will take place Saturday night for the wedding of his brother’s daughter in Betar. In Narol, the rebbe will lead a tish Friday night in Bnei Brak for the yahrzeit of his predecessor. Other commemorations include Satmar’s memorial to the 57th yahrzeit of Rabbi David Moshe of Kretschnif, and Zhiditchov-Peremyshlany’s pilgrimage in Ukraine for the yahrzeit of the author of Atteret Tzvi.
The weekend also features many family simchas. Among them are sheva berakhot gatherings in Nedvorna Jerusalem, Shatz, Zanz-Zvehil, Vizhnitz-Monsey, and Ktispinitz, plus an offree in Kiryat Tzanz Netanya, a brit for a great-grandson of the Spinka rebbe in Borough Park, and a shalom zachar in Beit Shemesh. Several rebbes will spend Shabbat away for rest or fundraising, including Satmar in Swan Lake, Skver in Malibu, Gur in Herzliya, Vizhnitz in Switzerland, Dushinsky in Los Angeles, Zutshka Jerusalem in Stamford Hill, and the rebbe of Blausov-Ribatitsch in Jerusalem.
The religious world is also marking weddings and shabbat chatan events for leading rabbis and their families, including the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar, who will stay in Bnei Brak for his granddaughter’s wedding, and Rabbi Tzvi Mazuz, whose family is celebrating in Netivot. Tributes continue for senior rabbis needing healing, among them Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rabbi Yitzchak Hecker, Rabbi Yehuda Adas, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef’s circle of leading Torah figures, and Rabbi Chizkiyahu Dov Cohen. The article also lists sunset times for the coming Shabbat in Israel and major cities abroad, and calls on the public to accept Shabbat early, half an hour before sunset, for the merit of the sick and the wounded.
