Editing Satmar Chassidus (section)

== Satmar's Conflict with Chabad Chassidim ==
During Operation Entebbe, tensions between Chabad and Satmar Chassidus intensified. This was due to differing perspectives on giving thanks to Hashem for the miracle - while Chabad saw it as a miracle, Satmar claimed it was a ma'aseh satan (act of satan) and illusion since it was carried out by the Zionists.

In winter of 1977, Satmar thugs threw stones at a Mitzvah Tank several times.

In Shevat 1977, Satmar chassidim came to the Ohel and behaved disrespectfully and brazenly. At the Tu B'Shvat farbrengen, the Rebbe spoke strongly about this matter, saying:<blockquote>"If we call this 'painful', it would be too mild... even if this was a cemetery of completely simple people... it's obvious to anyone with intelligence and every Yid, and even non-Jews understand this..." The Rebbe extensively described inappropriate behavior that occurred in the past in Rostov near the Rebbe Rashab's tzion, and how the Frierdiker Rebbe warned those involved to correct their behavior, and when they refused to listen - they were severely punished. The Rebbe called on all those involved in what happened at the Frierdiker Rebbe's tzion to do complete teshuvah and correct their actions. It is said that one of those chassidim indeed went there and asked for forgiveness and mechilah, while the other refused to go and suddenly became ill and passed away.</blockquote>On the seventh day of Pesach 1977, Satmar chassidim violently and cruelly attacked Chabad chassidim who came, as they did every year, to Williamsburg in a parade. At the Acharon Shel Pesach farbrengen held the next day, the Rebbe spoke about the shocking event, quoting the possuk read in the Torah that day "Hashem will fight for you, and you shall remain silent," concluding not to react to the serious incident and to rely completely on Hashem to handle it in His ways. However, the Rebbe clarified that the "silence" should not be interpreted as inaction - on the contrary, one should act and add in Torah and mitzvos and in "rising early and staying late in the beis medrash." The Rebbe also clarified that this instruction not to react was not because of mechilah chas v'shalom on the honor of those who were hurt in the parade. Regarding the severity of the act, the Rebbe said this was a painful and shocking thing, something unbelievable that happened, and in public no less. The Rebbe thanked the chassidim who participated in the parade for not being drawn into using "the hands - the hands of Eisav" and only used "the voice - the voice of Yaakov" which nullifies the control of the hands of Eisav.

Following these events, the next year before the seventh day of Pesach 1978, those responsible for the parade asked the Rebbe whether to continue holding the parade to Williamsburg on the seventh day of Pesach as every year or not, and in response the Rebbe instructed to ask the rabbonim. The rabbonim, led by Rav Zalman Shimon Dvorkin ruled, in accordance with the police and in light of information received about Satmar thugs planning to repeat their actions with additions, that one should not go because of pikuach nefesh, and since then the practice of having a parade to Williamsburg on the seventh day of Pesach was stopped.

On 15 Sivan 1983, Rabbi Pinchas Korf, who gave a Tanya shiur in Williamsburg, was severely beaten by Satmar thugs and his beard was cut off. Three weeks later, on 9 Tammuz, Rabbi Avraham Mendel Wechter, a Satmar chassid who became a Chabad chassid and influenced others from the Satmar community to learn Chabad Chassidus, was severely beaten by their thugs, his beard and peyos were cut off, and after they stabbed him with a knife all over his body including his throat, he was thrown unconscious and in critical condition, without clothes, on a busy street in the southern industrial area of Brooklyn. These events caused a great uproar in the Charedi community and rabbonim from all groups signed protests against these actions. Following these events, Chabad rabbonim ruled that it is forbidden to eat meat under their hechsher (even if there is another hechsher) and that it is forbidden to eat products under their hechsher alone (without another hechsher) and also placed a cherem on certain companies. At the farbrengen the following Shabbos, the Rebbe supported this ruling saying that "there is nothing after the beis din's ruling" and therefore everyone is obligated to obey the ruling.
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