Satmar rabbi leads Shabbat gathering in Safed as dozens of family celebrations unfold worldwide
A wide slate of Hasidic and yeshiva events is taking place this Shabbat across Israel, the United States and Europe, centered on Torah readings, sheva berachot, and celebratory meals for weddings and births. One of the most notable gatherings is in Safed, where Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Taitelbaum, the Satmar rabbi of Jerusalem and elder son of the Satmar rebbe, is spending a special "Shabbat Zikaron" with Satmar students in Israel who study in the Zikaron program, marking the completion of half the Talmud.
Several wedding-related celebrations are listed in London, Williamsburg, Boro Park, and Jerusalem, including the Chanz, Vizhnitz, Spinka, Galanta, Burstein, and Kasan-Chanz dynasties. Among them, the Chanz Torah reading for the rebbe’s granddaughter is being held in a temporary London beit midrash, the Vizhnitz engagement reading is in Williamsburg with a farshpil planned Saturday night, and multiple sheva berachot are underway in Bnei Brak for families connected to leading rabbis and yeshiva heads.
The article also notes rebbes and rabbis spending Shabbat in special locations for community support or institutional fundraising, including Tchernobyl in Jerusalem’s Old City, Stanislav in Stamford, Connecticut, Rachmastrivka-Spring Valley in Monsey, and several others in New York, Montreal, Los Angeles, Hungary and Waterville, New York. A tahash yahrzeit is being marked this Shabbat, with the Tash rebbe to lead the memorial meal Saturday night in Krityat Tash.
In the yeshiva world, major figures including Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Rabbi Dov Lando, Rabbi Dov Segal, Rabbi Abraham Salim, and others are scheduled to spend Shabbat in various communities in the United States and Israel. The article closes with prayers for seriously ill Torah leaders and a long list of personal mazel tov announcements, followed by Shabbat candle-lighting and departure times for dozens of cities in Israel and abroad, and a call to accept Shabbat 30 minutes before sunset for the merit of the sick and war wounded.
