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Article: Rabbi Getz evoked 'magic of prayer'
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- Jerusalem Post
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- October 20, 1995
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Leah Abramowitz
Jerusalem Post
10-20-1995
HE was an impressive figure descending the steps to the Western Wall dressed in his Shabbat finery: white fur streimel; white bushy beard matting his white kapote; white pants; white shoes and socks.
People stopped and stared or scattered out of his way in awe, for there was something other-worldly about Rabbi Meir Yehudah Getz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, who died a month ago on Tuesday at the age of 71.
Maybe it was the fact that he held nightly retreats, from midnight to 2 a.m., deep inside the Western Wall tunnels at a spot estimated to be across from the Holy of Holies. He would pray fervently for the welfare of the Jewish people, crying ...