Rabbi Meir Yehuda Goetz (15 August 1924 - 15 August 1924 - September 18, 1995) was a Sephardic Kabbalist who served as the Western Wall and Holy Places and the head of the Kabbalist Yeshiva of Bethel.
Rabbi Meir Yehuda Goetz (15 August 1924 - 15 August 1924 - September 18, 1995) was a Sephardic Kabbalist who served as the Western Wall and Holy Places and the head of the Kabbalist Yeshiva of Bethel.
Yehuda Meir Getz was born in in . He immigrated to Israel in 1949, settling in Kerem Ben Zimra, a moshav in Upper Galilee. .
Rabbi Meir Yehuda Getz was born in Tunisia in 1924, and in 1949 the family immigrated to Israel, lived in the aisle near Haifa and moved to Ras el-Ahmer in the Galilee, later Moshav Kerem Ben Zimra, where he served as rabbi of the moshav. He joined the Israel Defense Forces, although he did not need to, and after an officer course , was appointed 120mm mortar battery commander. and later rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
In the Six-Day War, he lost his second son, Avner, who fought in Jerusalem's battles in the paratroopers' brigade, in a battle in the al-Sahara Muslim cemetery near the target yard. Rabbi Getz very much was hurt his son's fall, but he also encouraged and comforted his family by the fact that his son was killed for sanctifying the name and liberating Jerusalem. It is known by its saying: "Oh my, this is how it happened to me, and I confirm that I won because my son fall was for the liberation of Jerusalem."
A few months after the fall of their son, the couple decided to move to Jerusalem to stay near their grave on Mount Herzl
In 1968 (1968), they moved to Jerusalem, first in a trailer in the Talpiot neighborhood, from there to housing in the Samuel Prophet neighborhood, and in 1971 (1971), the family was among the first families to live in the Jewish Quarter and settled in a home where the Spanish Torah Talmud was located during the century. -19
After the death of his son Avner in the Six-Day War, he moved to Jerusalem's Old City. Shortly afterward he was appointed as overseer of prayers at the Western Wall.
Getz was a supporter of Excavations at the Temple Mount. In July 1981, Getz and a team of associates opened a tunnel under the Temple Mount near to where he believed the Ark of the Covenant, previously in Solomon's Temple had been hidden, directly below the Holy of Holies of the Second Temple
Getz died of a heart attack on 17 September 1995. He was survived by his wife and six children and is buried on the Mount of Olives.
Interesting article for Hebrew readers can be found here: https://www.maariv.co.il/jewishism/Article-769994
May the merit of the tzadik Rabbi Meir Yehuda Goetz protect us all. Amen