"דמו נשפך כמים" | הגאון הינוקא בהספד מצמרר על רבי עמוס גואטה זצוק"ל במעמד אלפים

3:55 It says of the prophet Zechariah - Zechariah prays and cries out to us from the Kinnos that his blood was spilled like water by us. It is the guilt and the loss of all of us, that this holy and awesome one is lost and has left us and gone up in a storm to Heaven. We have come to "she came down astonishingly, with none to comfort her"; we have come to such a low place.

4:23 I will tell you what I had before my own eyes. I merited - I and this holy and awesome one, we met and we did not meet. Twenty years ago, it was the one and only time there was in twenty years. I used to give shiurim here in Netanya, and there was the celebration, they made me a birthday party - it was at the age of eighteen - here, Rabbi Yehuda Avigdor and a few more holy tzaddikim who hosted me here in the city of Netanya, and they made a great celebration. And after the birthday celebration they said to me: we want to receive a blessing from the holy Rabbi Amos, who is here.

5:07 So there was a driver who took me. That was the one and only time, and I want you to see and be shaken by what I am telling you now, for it happened to me myself; I - my own eyes saw it, and not a stranger's. The driver... it was already two o'clock at night, and there was no one in the beis medrash. The driver waited in the car, inside the vehicle, for he was alone in the car, and I went alone into the beis medrash, and I saw an angel of Hashem.

5:38 The holy Rabbi Amos was sitting on the chair with his head bowed down, as if he were asleep, when really he was in the upper worlds. He has his head lowered, and he is asleep. I stood next to him - it was one time, this was the only meeting between me and him - I stood next to him, and for twenty minutes I prayed and I prayed and I prayed, and I looked at him and looked at him and looked at him, and I did not want to say anything to him; I did not want to tell him that I was there.

6:12 There was no one in the shul; it was empty. He sat alone, sat like this on the chair, and I am praying like this for twenty minutes, and he does not move. After that I kissed him on his head. I kissed him, I kissed him on the head, I kissed him on his garment, on his shirt, like this, I did like this, and I went to the car, and we drove off.

6:38 That was my only meeting with him. He was asleep. The next day he let a few people who were here know. He said: tell him, the Yanuka, that I know he stood next to me for twenty minutes and prayed. That is what he said. No one could know that. He also did not know who I was; there was nothing by which he could know that I came, or anyone who told him I was coming. No one. He could not know it at all.

7:06 He also did not know me; he could not know my face, nothing. This only shows the open ruach hakodesh that he had, for he said it explicitly himself. He said: I know that he stood for twenty minutes and prayed next to me, and I know that he was with me. That was the only meeting between me and him, when I saw an angel of Hashem. And since then, baruch Hashem, we merited that each time he sent me messages, and I too sent him great love; he sent to me, and I sent to him, great love.

7:38 And I tell you: you merited, every single moment, to shelter in his shade, and to breathe the air and to be in this holy city, whose skies are clear and pure from his prayers, from his deeds, from this holy and awesome one who was here in your holy city. You are a city of kedushah, of Torah. There is a special light in this city, a wondrous light, and you are very, very holy and pure souls, and you must strengthen yourselves, strongly, strongly, and always remember everything he bequeathed to us, everything he revealed to us in the world, all his heart, all his compassion, all his greatness. There was nothing like it in the world, such greatness and such compassion as he revealed - to reveal, and to bring close all those who are far, and to shine the light of Hashem, blessed be He, in the lowest places,

8:34 and to reveal the light of Hashem, blessed be He, in all the worlds. And I tell you: they say "Yaakov Avinu did not die". So let each one hold firmly in his mind that this holy and awesome one is certainly alive, alive, alive. You know that in Tractate Yoma, page 23, when the Gemara tells of the kohanim who went up the ramp, and this one came within the four amos of that one, one drew on his fellow and stabbed him with a knife, with a blade, and killed him.

9:08 And the Gemara says that they were being particular about tumah, about the purity of utensils - they want to know about the utensils - and his son was still convulsing. He is still deliberating about the knife, and he is not deliberating about the great pain, the greatest pain, over bloodshed. And I tell you: there is no bloodshed greater and more awful than this, that the heart cries out to the heavens, that such a holy and awesome one was among us, that "the tzaddik is lost, and no man takes it to heart". And we need to cry out to Hashem, blessed be He, that He have mercy on us, and save us, and awaken us, and have mercy on us.

9:45 Who will be able to annul decrees like that, like this holy and awesome one, with his kedushah and with his tefillah and with everything he revealed in the world? And you, his students, must keep to his path, and help the Rebbetzin and his son, so that he continues the father's light, and strengthen the mother, the Rebbetzin, and this whole holy yeshiva, that this yeshiva should rise and be raised to the highest place.

10:12 And remember that he is alive and enduring, and he is with us. He has not left us and he will not leave us, and his light is with us always - to uphold the Torah, to uphold this holy and awesome place of yours here, with greater force and greater strength. And may you always be strengthened, may you have the greatest strength, in kedushah, in purity, in deveikus.

10:40 I want - Rabbi Yaakov, Rabbi Yaakov, the Rav's son, may the Holy One, blessed be He, strengthen him, and the son, Rabbi Moshe. Rabbi Moshe. I bless you that the Holy One, blessed be He, should rest among you, and give you siyata dishmaya, and give you blessings, and give you much good. Fortunate are you, that you merited this kedushah.

14:49 Fortunate is he. You are the holy of holies; we love you.