Yes, there was genuine simcha with the birth of Maor and Smadar Guatta’s third child on Monday, 3 Cheshvan, but that blessed event was marred by the petira of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L. The announcement of the petira of the gadol hador, came a minute before the birth in Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot.

The rav visited the family’s Jerusalem winery in the past and they established and maintain the rav’s internet site.

“We believe that the birth of this son in such proximity to the rav’s petira is a symbolic event” Maor explained. He explains the newborn’s 3-year-old brother, Noam Mordechai, was born after the petira of HaGaon HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu ZT”L. Maor davens “If only the newborn will have his seichel and go in the rav’s derech,” adding, “Maran’s son, Rishon L’Tzion Rav Yitzchak Yosef married us.”

The family announced it is committed to now upload many more of the gadol hador’s shiurim to make his Torah available around the world.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)