B'KROVAI AKADESH: The story of Rav Tzvi Guttman, his murdered sons, and a destroyed Romanian world rebuilt in Tel Aviv

  This Yom HaShoah, our JLIC TLV comunity had the immense privilege to hear from Rav Elchanan Guttman - rav of the Bet Yaakov Yosef synagogue in Tel Aviv The shul was founded by Rav Guttman's grandfather, Rav Tzvi Guttman, and named for his two sons Yaakov and Yosef who were murdered in front of him after they were taken from their home in Bucharest in 1940.    Rav Elchanan Guttman tells the moving story of Romanian Jewry before, during and after the Shoah through the story of his own remarkable and heroic grandfather.  Towards the end of his remarks Rav Guttman shares the single message that his grandfather would have wanted to tell a kahal of young olim in 2026   Rav Guttman speaks in Hebrew with a summarised translation into English at intervals by Rav Joe Wolfson.   We are very grateful to Rav Guttman for taking the time to share his story with us and it is our joy to help fill the shul that his grandfather built in memory of his murdered sons