After reports on Tuesday that the Belzer Rebbe might be forced to spend Rosh Hashanah in the hospital, the Rebbe’s household issued an encouraging update, saying that, b’chasdei Hashem, his medical condition had improved significantly and that b’ezras Hashem, he was expected to be released from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Wednesday.

Following his release, the Rebbe is expected to return to Kiryat Belz in Jerusalem, where he will lead the Rosh Hashanah tefillos together with thousands of chassidim arriving from across Israel and overseas.

On Tuesday morning, the Belzer Rebbe’s brother-in-law, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, paid a second bikur cholim visit to the Rebbe at the hospital.

The public is asked to continue davening for the refuah sheleimah of the Belzer Rebbe, Rav Yissachar Dov ben Miriam b’toch sha’ar cholei Yisrael.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)