More than a Miracle Worker: Rav Eliyahu Guttmacher

ByJewish History Soundbites - Yehuda Geberer April 25, 2022October 23, 2022

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Rav Eliyahu Guttmacher (1796-1874) was a German rabbi who gained renown as a miracle worker during his tenure in the rabbinate of Gratz (Greiditz). Thousands from Poland and all over Europe would petition him asking for his blessings and prayers on every conceivable issue. A student of Rav Akiva Eiger, he was also a Kabbalist, and later a proto Zionist and supporter of the ideas of his colleague Rav Tzvi Hirsh Kalisher.
In 1932 a large cache of kvittelech sent to Rav Guttmacher was discovered. An analysis of this rare collection yields much information on the social, economic and religious life of Polish Jewry during the 19th century.
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Yehuda Geberer
is a researcher of Jewish History and a popular tour guide of Jewish Historical sites in Europe. He spends much of his time conducting group and private tours around Europe as well as Israel, for families, groups and institutions from a variety of background and ages. Tours to Europe and Israel focus on the story of the Jewish People in the modern era and this remains the primary focus of his research.

In addition to guided trips to Europe, he is a licensed tour guide at the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, where he also conducts interviews of survivors. In addition to his duties at the vaunted Holocaust museum, he has lectured on a wide array of topics of Jewish historical interest at numerous Shuls, Yeshivas as well as taught classes at the Ner LeElef Rabbinic Training Program in Jerusalem.

He is also the host of Jewish History Soundbites, a popular podcast profiling personalities and episodes from our glorious past. Since its inception in May 2019, the large community of listeners who regularly tune in to Jewish History Soundbites has grown significantly, constituting a diverse and educated audience from many countries around the world.

Yehuda writes a regular history column for Mishpacha Magazine entitled 'For the Record'".

Yehuda studied for many years at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has a Business degree from Ono Academic College and is studying for a degree in Jewish History at Hebrew University.

He lives in Bet Shemesh with his wife and three children.