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The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): Jerusalem, the old city - the girls
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  • Updated By Martin_S. on October 26, 2003
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  • Zohara, Tal & Carmen at Wailing Wall, Jerusalem - Jerusalem
    Zohara, Tal & Carmen at
    Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
    by Martin_S.
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    Zohara and Tal took Carmen to get a closer look and explained to her the "belief" that here at this holy relic of the Jewish empire that was lost, if you put a piece of paper in the wall with your prayer printed upon it, that GOD will read it and answer your prayer. So far I have never met anyone for whom this worked, but maybe they all asked to be taken to heaven immediately.....

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): Requests to God
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  • Updated By Carmela71 on March 22, 2004
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  • A player to God - Jerusalem
    A player to God
    by Carmela71
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    As soon as we arrived to the Wall, Zohara told me that it is typical to ask something to God by writing a note and leaving it on the cracks of the wall. I do not know if he/she (God) will hear me, but just in case.... I did it. These notes are supposed to be pick up and be treated as holy things taken into fire. In the modern times, you can also send a fax or email with your wish and they will put for you in the wall. The web site where you can send the player, is this one: http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/sendaprayer/

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): The plant on the western wall
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  • By ophiro on June 22, 2006
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    caper between the rocks
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    There is a plant between the rocks of the western wall. The name of the plant is Capparis spinosa (in hebrew it is "Tsa'laf"). There is a legend about the plant : When the romans attacked Jerusalem there was a boy called Tsalaf (the hebrew meaning of sniper) that stood on the western wall and fired arrows on the romans so they couldnt pass. The roman's millitary leader saw that and ordered to enter from the north entry and they broke into the temple mount and destroyed the temple. The roman's millitary leader came behind the boy to kill him but he was amazed that it was just a small boy. Before he killed him the boy started to get down on the wall and just before the romans killed him with their arrows he became a plant - a caper. The roman's millitary leader ordered his soldiers to get down the wall and bring him the plant but each one of them fell after the thorns of the plant injured them. And now only the western wall was left and the plant is still watching the people praying.

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): visit the Wailing Wall and all...
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  • By tvdm on September 12, 2002
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  • The Western Wall (Wailing Wall) - Jerusalem
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    visit the Wailing Wall and all the sights around it. Here you are at the very place that three of the world's main religious deem holy. With the Christian churches behind you, the Jewish Wall right in front and the Muslim Al'Aqsa mosque above, you can't help but be astounded. See the travelogue for some more pics.

    Dusk over the western part of town. As all the buildings are made of a light sandstone, the whole city turned a pink hue... really beautiful!

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): The western wall
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  • Updated By ophiro on June 21, 2006
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  • Aish Hatorah - This is where the camera is located - Jerusalem
    Aish Hatorah - This is where
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    There is a web camera that watching the western wall if you want to check it from a distance. Click HERE to see the western wall.

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): Jerusalem, the old city - Moslem Mosque
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  • By Martin_S. on October 26, 2003
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  • Golden Mosque over wailing wall, Jerusalem, Israel - Jerusalem
    Golden Mosque over wailing
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    by Martin_S.
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    Here you can see the Moslem Mosque that stands upon the ruins of the Jewish Temple. The mosque was orignally constructed to prevent the rebuilding of the Jewish temple, today it is one of the main mosques in Jerusalem.

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): Jerusalem, the old city - cell phone to god
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  • By Martin_S. on October 26, 2003
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  • Religious Jew at wailing wall, Jerusalem, Israel - Jerusalem
    Religious Jew at wailing
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    by Martin_S.
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    I told you about the belief that if you left a prayer at the wailing wall that god would answer it. Well here is one of the super religious Jews here at the wailing wall, with his mobile phone, I guess he had a direct line to god.

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): Jerusalem, the old city - The Western Wall
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  • By Martin_S. on October 26, 2003
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  • Wailing Wall, mens section, Jerusalem, Israel - Jerusalem
    Wailing Wall, mens
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    by Martin_S.
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    The Western Wall is the proper name for the remains of this temple, but it is better known as the wailing wall. Here you can see the mens section and the men sitting down to pray for hours. The men in the black hats (you can see one in the far distance) are from one of the super religious sects in Judiasm and they will STAND at the wall with prayer books in hand nodding their heads in a back and forth rythm. This type of "nodding" is called davening, what it is for have no idea, but they stand there bobbing back and forth and mumbling to themselves

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): Jerusalem, the old city - The prayers
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  • Updated By Martin_S. on October 26, 2003
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  • Prayers in the wailing wall, Jerusalem, Israel - Jerusalem
    Prayers in the wailing wall,
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    This is a closeup showing the papers stuffed in each and every crack of the wailing wall. As high as you can reach, and some higher, as if the person who put them there was riding on the back of another person. You can see for yourself that there is zero room for more. Each small scratch, crack or joint is filled with these prayer papers. I believe they come periodically and clean them out, otherwise over the space of a few weeks the believers would fill up every available space. Carmen, Zohara and Tal all put in papers in the womens section...

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    The Western Wall (Wailing Wall): The Wailing Wall
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  • Wailing Wall - Jerusalem
    Wailing Wall
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    Visit the Wailing Wall, where Jews from all over the world come and pray. It's an old custom to write down your request and put the note in one of the cracks in the wall. Once this was done the request should be granted by god. These notes are collected from time to time and are burried as holy artifacts. Using modern technology, one can fax his note and have it inserted into one of the cracks.


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