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Thousands of Satmar Hasidim pack Williamsburg hall for end-of-holiday tish
Video from Brooklyn shows tiers of men in fur hats gathered around the Satmar rebbe’s table as the community marked the close of the Simchat Torah holiday.
Thousands of Satmar Hasidim gathered in the hall of the Great Study House (Beis Medrash Hagadol) in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood in New York for a tish led by the Satmar rebbe to mark the close of the holiday, Israeli Haredi news outlet Zirat HaHadashot reported, publishing video of the gathering.
The footage shows bleachers packed up to the ceiling with men in black coats, most of them wearing shtreimels, while the rebbe, dressed in white, sits at a raised table draped in a gold-trimmed cloth in the middle of the hall. Long tables lined with participants stretch across the floor around him.
A gathering around the rebbe’s table
A tish — Yiddish for “table” — is a Shabbat or holiday gathering of Hasidic Jews around their rebbe. At large gatherings, observers often stand on bleachers known in Yiddish as parentches. The shtreimel, the fur hat seen across the hall, is worn mainly by Hasidic men on Shabbat, Jewish holidays and other festive occasions.
Simchat Torah, which celebrates the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings and the beginning of a new one, ended at nightfall on Sunday, October 4, outside Israel.
Satmar, founded in 1905 by Joel Teitelbaum, has grown into one of the largest Hasidic dynasties in the world, with a population of nearly 300,000. Its two main centers are South Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Kiryas Joel, New York. Since 2006 the group has been divided between two brothers: Zalman Leib Teitelbaum leads the Williamsburg community, while Aaron Teitelbaum leads the Kiryas Joel faction.
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