The Sanzer Rebbe will spend a Shabbos at the Kosel HaMaaravi together with a group of Chassidim, marking the first time in his 31-year leadership that he will be spending Shabbos at the site.
The original plan had been for the group of donors to travel to Poland to visit the kevorim of tzaddikim. However, this trip was never scheduled to include the Rebbe himself. In accordance with the firm stance of his father, the Shefa Chaim of Sanz zt”l, the Rebbe has consistently refrained from visiting the graves of tzaddikim in Poland and Ukraine. The Shefa Chaim had passionately argued that there is no reason to return to the lands of our slaughter following the horrors of the Holocaust, famously declaring: “Those tzaddikim who were truly worthy were brought to Eretz Yisroel immediately after their passing—not by men, but through miraculous means, as is well known.”
True to this approach, the Rebbe and his descendants have never visited these countries or the gravesites of their ancestors located there, viewing them as places stained by the blood of the six million kedoshim who were murdered al kiddush Hashem during the war.
Nevertheless, due to the severe financial strain currently facing Torah and chinuch institutions throughout Eretz Yisroel—and within the Sanz community in particular—the leadership of the Sanzer mosdos initially planned a special fundraising trip to the cities of Sanz, Lizhensk, and Mezhibuzh, with a visit to Auschwitz.
The Rebbe granted reluctant and temporary permission for the trip, given the pressing needs of the mosdos. However, this past week, an alternative plan emerged: rather than sending the donors on a pilgrimage abroad, the Rebbe would spend Shabbos together with them at the Kosel.
He agreed to the proposal, and for the first time, he will remain with the philanthropists for the duration of Shabbos, holding tefillos and tishen in the shadow of the Kosel.
The Shabbos will take place on Shabbos Parshas Shelach, Shabbos Mevorchim for the month of Tammuz.

{Matzav.com Israel}