A new gallery has been added to the main Belz Beis Medrash to accommodate the thousands of mispallelim expected during the upcoming Yomim Tovim.

A massive Hachnasas Sefer Torah will take place on Sunday at the tziyon of the holy Rashbi in Meron. The event is being organized by Ohel HaRashbi, under the leadership of Rav Shraga Schnitzer Shlit”a.

Shortly before Shabbos, the Mevakshei Emunah Rebbe Shlit”a visited the home of the Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman Shlit”a, in Bnei Brak. The Rebbe, who was spending Shabbos in the city for Shabbos Selichos, visited the Rosh Yeshiva to exchange brachos for the upcoming new year.

During Krias HaTorah this Shabbos at Merkaz Chasidei Vizhnitz, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe Shlit”a made a Mi Shebeirach for a refuah sheleimah for his brother, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe Shlit”a. The Rebbe had spent Shabbos resting in Moshav Orah and returned on Motzei Shabbos to lead the first Selichos at the Vizhnitz Beis Medrash HaGadol in Bnei Brak.

The Belzer Rebbetzin spent Shabbos in Moshav Orah alongside her sisters, the Satmar Rebbetzin and Rebbetzin Ernster, visiting their brother, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe. Before Shabbos, the Belzer Rebbetzin asked her sisters and her sister-in-law, the Vizhnitzer Rebbetzin, to light an additional Shabbos candle—a practice instituted by the Belzer Rebbe as a zechus for lost souls to return to their roots.

During Shalosh Seudos, the Seret Vizhnitzer Rebbe Shlit”a urged his chassidim to daven for the refuah sheleimah of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe Shlit”a, who is in need of rachamei Shomayim.

The Mishkoltz Rebbe Shlit”a delivered a drasha at a Sheva Brachos held at the Ohr Yisroel hall for Avi Miara, the head of the local United Hatzalah branch.

HaGaon HaTzadik Rav Meir Greineman delivering a shmuess of chizuk prior to the first Selichos at the Beis Hashem Beis Medrash.

The massive Motzei Shabbos hadlakah led by HaRav Elimelech Biderman Shlit”a in Meron began at 3:00 a.m. The uplifting maamad featured musical accompaniment by Ahrele Samet and the Kapelye Choir, conducted by Nussy Rotman.

Following Selichos, the Zekan HaAdmorim, the Slonimer Rebbe Shlit”a, instructed the thousands of assembled chassidim to recite two kapitlach of Tehillim and made a Mi Shebeirach for the refuah sheleimah of his uncle, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe Shlit”a.

Baruch Dayan HaEmes: We regret to inform you of the petirah on Motzei Shabbos of HaGaon HaTzadik Rav Chaim Yosef Gottlieb Z”L (ben Rav Dov Berish). The levayah will take place tonight at 11:15 p.m. at the Satmar Beis Medrash HaGadol in Kiryas Joel (5 Garfield Road). Besuros tovos.

Seven new families moved into the growing kehillah in Linden, NJ, this week, kein yirbu.

The Dinover Rebbe Shlit”a and the Spinka Rov Shlit”a paying a nichum aveilim visit to the Biala Rebbe of America Shlit”a.

With the Belzer Rebbetzin spending Shabbos in Moshav Orah at the side of her brother, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe (Rav Yisroel ben Leah Esther, for a refuah sheleimah), the Belzer Rebbe Shlit”a lit the Shabbos candles in his private study.

The Kretschneff-Kfar Ata Rebbe Shlit”a has announced that he will be traveling to Uman, Ukraine, to spend the upcoming Yom Tov of Rosh Hashanah near the tziyon of the holy Rebbe Nachman of Breslov ZT”L. Further details of the trip will be announced.