Rav Amos Guetta, ztzl, was stabbed to death this morning in Netanya.

He was a big public supporter of Rav Berland, and all this feels so similar to what happened with the Baba Elazar, and the ‘deal’ the Baba Elazar struck with R Dov Kook of Tiberius, and Rav Berland, to split up the terrible issurim due to Am Yisrael between themselves.

I will BH post up something from OIAG 1 tomorrow, which recaps that.

I don’t know what’s going on, but for sure, R Guetta’s murder just sweetened something huge for Am Yisrael.

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In the meantime, this is from OIAG III:

THE DISGRACE OF THE TZADDIK

 

The month before the tragedy in Meron, on March 23, 2021, Israel had yet another round of elections- and yet again, it appeared that neither side had the 61 mandates required to ‘become king’ and form a new government.

As the squabbling and horse-trading and arguing continued in the corridors of power, it seemed as though Israel was fast heading to yet another election – the fifth in less than two years.

At this time Rav Berland continued to sit in jail, and very troubling rumors started reaching the Shuvu Banim community that the Rav was being treated in a horrendous way.

He wasn’t recieving even the the type of basic care required for an elderly man with myriad serious medical issues, including being given low-grade food that was very bad for his health; being left in the same clothes for weeks at a time, and generally receiving the same type of ‘care’ that had come very close to killing him the first time he was imprisoned.

On May 14, 2021, the well-known kabbalist from Netanya, the late Rabbi Amos Gweta, ztzl, publicized a message with a very harsh warning, via R’ Chanan Vaknin, the gabbai of Kollel Olga.[1]

R’ Vaknin had been invited on to Radio Kol Chai by broadcaster Moshe Ben Lulu – but the journalist clearly didn’t know what message R’ Vaknin was about to give over.

Ben Lulu began the segment by saying to R’ Vaknin: 

“You are known as someone who is close to the kabbalist Rabbi Amos of Netanya.  It’s known that you are close to great Tzaddikim: Rabbi Dov Kook [from Teveria), Rav Stern [from Bnei Brak], Rav Golan from Alma – all the great Tzaddikim. Do you have a message from Rav Amos?”

R Vaknin replied:

“Yes.  I have an important message from him!  We are close to Netanya and go to him a lot.  Rabbi Amos said one thing now which needs to be said, about what is happening now:

For a long time the Jewish people are silent, great rabbis are silent, the entire world is silent — about the disgracing of a great Tzaddik, the Tzaddik of the generation, who is Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit”a, whom they are disgracing from morning to evening!

You know, the Shas party, everyone…, when you say to them about Bibi [Netanyahu], that he still hasn’t been tried, they answer, Bibi is a ‘tzaddik’ — he’s presumed innocent.

But Rabbi Berland shlit”a – they’re torturing him for a year and a half in prison — and he still hasn’t been tried, and everyone is afraid to protest!  Now, they brought the Rav to the district court in a mobile intensive care unit!  He needed to have intensive care inside the courthouse!

What they annulled for Bibi [i.e. to appear in court], for Rabbi Berland, they don’t annul!  The kabbalist Rabbi Amos said that if people don’t protest the affront to the Tzaddik… For a year and a half, he’s not with us: there was no Uman, there was no Rabbi Shimon — there was a tragedy by Rabbi Shimon.

This year, Rabbi Berland screamed: ‘I want to go to Rabbi Shimon.  I want to sweeten the decrees!’  They didn’t allow him…And the Sages of Israel — forgive us, we are dust at their feet — are not protesting.  Not one protests.  This Tzaddik is now in an ambulance, Reb Moshe.”

R’ Vaknin continued:

“There was never something like this — they take an 84-year-old Jew in an ambulance to the district court to try him for things that he has absolutely no connection to. Rabbi Amos screamed — he’s on video — he screamed: “If people don’t protest the insult to the honor of Rabbi Eliezer Berland, there will be a tragedy 1000 times greater!

We need to wake up because of this.  There is a presumption of innocence for everyone, yet everyone is silent!”

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At that point, the presenter Ben Lulu brought the segment to a close by saying the following:

“Ok, listen Channan.  I’m going to tell you something. I have an order here [at Radio Kol Chai] not to talk about Rabbi Berland, but because you said that the kabbalist Rabbi Amos said this, I was silent, and I know what I’ll ‘receive’ after the program [for allowing him to continue to speak about Rabbi Berland].  But here you spoke. Thank you very much.”[2]

FOOTNOTES:

[1]  https://ravberland.com/kabbalist-reveals-reason-for-4th-intifada-and-warns-of-tragedy-a-1000-times-greater/

[2] To hear the original recording in Hebrew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJstTHcwyT0