Tens of thousands of Jews from all walks of life streamed into Kiryas Joel Tuesday to mark the 43rd Yahrtzeit of the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yoel Teitelbaum Zatzal, the founder of the Satmar Chasidic movement and namesake of the Satmar village in Orange County. Thousand visit the Kever each year on his Yartzheit. The Satmar Rov was Niftar at age 92 in 1979, two years after Kiryas Joel was created. The Satmar Rav, a direct descendant of both the famed Yismach Moshe and the Chavas Daas, was recognized as a young man for his unusual lomdus, hasmadah and tzidkus – Torah scholarship, diligence and piety – assuming his first rabbinical position as Rav of Muzheyer at the age of seventeen. By the outbreak of World War 11, he was Rav of the thriving community of Satmar and had emerged as one of the leading figures in Hungarian Jewry. He distinguished himself with his heroic adherence to Torah under the most brutal conditions of the Nazi concentration camps. After a brief stay in Eretz Yisrael, the Rebbe came to America in 1946 and settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

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