Jerusalem – Jewish history was made tonight as for the first time in over thirty years, the Belzer and Satmar Rebbes met in the home of the Belzer Rebbe in Telz Stone.
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The meeting, which took place at 12:50 AM Israel time, lasted over thirty minutes and hundreds of chasidim and onlookers waited outside to catch a historic glimpse of the heads of the two Chasidic sects, who are brothers in law, meeting together.
The last several weeks have been spent ironing out the particulars of the meeting between.
Telz Stone was sealed off completely today, with only residents permitted to enter the area and the Belzer Rebbe’s house on Rechov Baal Shem Tov was surrounded by heavy security.
The Satmar Rebbe, R’ Aron Teitelbaum, who is in Israel for a wedding, was accompanied by three of his Gabbaim and traveled from Bnei Brak to Telz Stone in a caravan that totaled twenty five vehicles. The Belzer Rebbe who had been staying in Jerusalem for the past few weeks went to his apartment in Telz Stone specifically for this meeting and was accompanied by his son R’ Aharon Mordechai Rookeach, R’ Shimon Wolf Klein, R’ Michel Firer, R’ Pinchas Friedman, R’ Mordechai Brisk, R’ Mordechai Ringel, R’ Zev Farkas and R’ Aharon Fried. The two Chasidic leaders reportedly discussed customs of their respective Chasidic sects.
The road to this monumental reconciliation was paved approximately one month ago when, as reported on VIN News, a delegation of Belzer dayanim paid a visit to the grave of the Satmar Rebbe, R’ Yoel Teitelbaum zt’l in Kiryas Joel, and asked for mechila in the name of the Belzer Rebbe.
Moshiach’s tzieten. And I’m all for it! It will be the first time in 30 years the rebbes can say ” chaverim kol yisroel” with a whole heart.
1st time in chasidus history!!
May all chasidus take a lesson.
Moshiach is ready to come! Umein!
WOW its moshiach times!!
Wow now i can do a shiddich with a Belzer chusid…..
WOW!!! WOW!!! The belzer rabbi is Such a brave man!!!! I’m proud to be a Jew!!!!
Its all about propaganda..
The real satmar chasidim are not accepting the belzer rabbi And are very upset on the KJ satmar rabbi for his changes what he brings in to the satmar sector !
Yawn – Please use the word historic for things that are actually historic. Ending a silly decades old feud is not historic. Its called growing up.
Its not a good term” satmar reunite” when ther are still tens of thousends satmara chasidim(r’ zalman lib) over the world which are against a sholam with belz.
History will be when Satmar, and Satmar make peace. This was just publicity.
R’ Zalmen, your turn to make shalom with your brother.
When will the Two Satmar Rebbes meet
Haters can hate, but these are two brave men that did what they knew was right. Kudos to them.
Can someone fill us in on what they were fighting about?
If they are brothers in law, I assume they married sisters. Did they meet at family simchos?
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry. The whole scenario sounds like bad script from a Holywood TV reality show How much money was wasted in simply arranging this “reunion”. If they were serious, they could have simply gotten on the phone and spoken. Also, why do a meeting at 12:30 AM??
Brave? Miracle? Moshiach?!
Two groups of jews fight and hate each other for 30 years and decide to hold a meeting and this is worthy of praise? Sorry, you can’t call yourself a pious jew, if you hate your fellow jew—- not impressed. at all.
What was all the security for??
Agree totally with #23 – bunch of people acted like kindergarteners for generations, and we should be thrilled they made up? It’s like the Hatfields and McCoys.
Please spare us the hyperbole. Historic is the 6 Day War, the founding of the Medina, Menachem Begin meeting Sadat. Dos? Dos is a meeting of two brother in laws!
BIG DEAL!!!!!! let’s see Reb Aron make Shalom with his own brother.
The Belzer is NOT the real Belzer he is the son of Bilgorayer Rav ZT’L And Reb Aron is the son of the Sigeter Rav ZT’L. Besides their wives are sisters who converse in Ivrit on a regular basis. Why should they not get along with each other
For some of the Yidden who do not have a Chasidik background, please explain what the machlokos was all about.
What a big deal!!!
Satmar Rebbe KJ has been in touch with his brother-in-law the Belzer Rebbe all along. There are plenty of simchas that they both have attended and at which they have spoken to each other.
Belz is still not meshadech with Satmar; Belz does not eat Satmar shechita, nor does Satmar eat Belz’s. They do not use each other’s Batei Dinim, nor attend each other’s tishen.
Cordiality reigns and the chesed organizations of either side assist the other.
I understand that an official photographer was used to record the occasion for posterity, but I promise you, nothing has changed.
Great PR!
Let us see true sholom in Satmar, Klausenberg, Viznitz, Bobov etc. where the adversaries are brothers and immediate family.
I find it impossible to explain to my children the hatred, mesira and rishus that our Rebbishe (HOLY!!!!!) families – supposedly our role models – are involved in.
And.. even worse how our Dayanim have virtually destroyed our faith in the Bais Din!
What were they arguing about in the first place? Can someone explain?
What was Mercuto’s comment to Hamlet in Act 3, scene 1, approximately line 91 in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? It seems to me to be very appropriate here.
The real story is that we think its so great that Belz and Satmar can now get along… in the whole scheme of things I’m sure their original machlokes wasn’t worth the 30 years…. THIS IS SO SAD!!!
Maybe the Satmarer can help the Belzer out of his depression. Just because one of the sets of Gabboyim labelled this as an historic meeting doesn’t mean that everyone else has to get carried away. This was not historic to anyone except the Gabboyim and a few chassidim without a brain.
It’s a mitzvah to love every single Jew for the fact that they have a neshoma. im yirtzeh Hashem, the geula will come speedily in our days!
No chassidis is real unless there is a fester machloikis with someone. The best people to have a machloikis with are your father or your brothers. Anything else is very second rate. Brothers-in-law hardly count. Doesn’t matter if the Rebbes are from the biggest chassidisen like Satmar where the argument is over money or the smallest like Boston where the argument is over who has the three chassidim left in the chassidis, the ikkur is that there should be machloikis.
The truth is these two were always good with each other but couldn’t meet because he spoke against reb Yoel so now there wasn’t realy any shulim
25 CARS!!! Wow, he must REALLY be a gadol!
Where is the monetary gain for both sides?
Do you people {commentators} know how much hate you are filled with? ohsa shulom bimroymov he ya’asah shulom on us.
The leaders of two sects decide that a few decades is long enough to be snippy with each other. This is supposed to be “historic”?
#65 – you are right, it is a bit early for mincha the Amshinover Rebbe Shlita!
KOL H’kovod for Belzer Rebbe. I think the Rebbe will go down in history as a Gadol & Manhig B’Yisroel. It took but a couple of hours for hundreds of “Rebelach” to sign that infamous letter against Belz (30 years ago) yet the Rebbe forged ahead with a vision based on “EMES” to build a chassidus from the ashes of WW2. His big “AVEIRAH” was not to cower under the strong pressure of Satmar. So Satmar did what Satmar knows best!! Terror!!Terrorizing anyone who has the audacity to go against them. In every drashah the Rebbe always emphasizes the derech of the Belz Rebbes ZT”L before him with all the trials & tribulations associated with that dor. Thus one must go forward. This one can see – Belz is the foremost chassidus embracing the 21st century using technology for Kodesh yet adhereing to the strict guidelines of the previous Rebbes.