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The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): Ha'kotel o Western Wall
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  • ezaguryk
  • Updated By ezaguryk on February 6, 2004
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  • Ha'kotel - Jerusalem
    Ha'kotel
    by ezaguryk
    The magnetism that you can feel when you go to the Kotel, is like been near to heaven.

    Most of the people that goes to the kotel prays and introduce paper between the stones aksing to God.

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  • Address: Jewish Quarter
  • Directions: In the Old City Jerusalem
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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): Western Wall
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  • mardaska
  • By mardaska on June 27, 2003
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  • Western Wall - Jerusalem
    Western Wall
    by mardaska
    The wall is a part of the Temple Mount built by Herod the Great. It is a Judaisms holy site.

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  • Directions: In the Old City Jerusalem
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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): Western Wall
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  • Aurorae
  • Updated By Aurorae on November 24, 2003
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  • Western Wall - Jerusalem
    Western Wall
    by Aurorae
    The famous Wailing Wall which is preferrably being called the Western Wall, with the Omar Mosque behind...

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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): The Wailing Wall
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  • By dabuwan on January 29, 2003
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  • The Wailing Wall - Jerusalem
    The Wailing Wall
    by dabuwan
    This famous wall (also called "the Western Wall") is supposed to be what's left of the old Solomon temple. It is a very important holy site for the Judaism and tourists are allowed for a visit a well (you must cover your head).

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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): Western Wall
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  • Updated By freya_heaven on September 1, 2004
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  • Us, Western Wall - Jerusalem
    Us, Western Wall
    by freya_heaven
    Derek & Myself, on my flying visit to Jerusalem, 2 years after I left the Kibbutz.

    Weird to be back, but we were there so briefly (& I was feeling really ill) I did not get the feel of the place again. I am obviously meant to return! (~_~)

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  • Directions: In the Old City Jerusalem
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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): Western Wall
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  • Sharon
  • Updated By Sharon on May 21, 2005
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  • Boy, i was young once... :-) - Jerusalem
    Boy, i was young once... :-)
    by Sharon
    Or the wailing wall or in Hebrew - The Kotel. This place is The Holliest Place for the Jewish people.
    You can see people praying and writing their biggest wishes on a small notes which they put in between ths tones...hoping for answers to their prayers. That has become a tradition for those who believe in that and also for those who not... i guess everyone hopes for a miracles.....

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  • Address: Old city of Jerusalem
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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): The Western Wall
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  • Sharon
  • Updated By Sharon on May 26, 2005
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  • A religious girl Praying, asking, wishing & hoping - Jerusalem
    A religious girl Praying,
    asking, wishing & hoping
    by Sharon
    Visit the Western Wall and all the old city, lots of history, very important area for all religions.
    Unlike in the past there's now also a special road to Wheelchairs which make it accessible to the wall with wheelchair and to the Herodian Street, this road start at the Archological garden and gets all the way to the wailing road.
    When arriving there please make sure you're dressed modestly, Girls, NO mini skirts or Small shirts that doesnt cover you, This is a holly Site, please respect it.

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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): Go and see the wall ofcourse!...
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  • By sandravdp on September 8, 2002
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  • The Wailing Wall (Western Wall) - Jerusalem
    by sandravdp
    Go and see the wall ofcourse! It's called the Western Wall / Wailing wall / Wall of weeps / Wall of complaint or simply the wall. Finding it is easy, just follow the signs.

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  • Other Contact: The wall is seperated in two pie
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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): For Jewish is the wailing wall...
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  • By dedeckerm. on August 26, 2002
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  • The Wailing Wall (Western Wall) - Jerusalem
    by dedeckerm.
    For Jewish is the wailing wall a stone expression of their religious tradition
    For Christians is Jerusalem the town where Jesus was living.
    11,000 people worked for three years building this construct that was one of the biggest and most magnificent buildings.
    The current wall is only partly the original wall. It is 18 meters high and the 11 lower rows are original Herodian work

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  • Directions: You can reach the Wall through the Dung Gate or through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
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    The Wailing Wall (Western Wall): West- or Wailing Wall.
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  • schielen
  • By schielen on August 25, 2002
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  • The Wailing Wall (Western Wall) - Jerusalem
    by schielen
    From all over the world, but ofcourse mainly from Jerusalem itself Jews come to pray at this holy site. There is, like in a synagoge (jewish church) a segregation of men and women.


    Here you see men reading out of the Torah, the holy book of the Jews.


    These men are praying directly at the wall. It's very common to put your prayer on a piece of paper and put it in a gap between the stones. Jews from al over the world can now quite easaly put a prayer in the wall, even if they do not have the time or money to travel to Jerusalem, because there is a fax-machine at the Wall to which they can send their prayers!

    At the time I visited Jerusalem I was told that the actual wall could only be accessed by Jews

    From VT member dantes2 I got the following reaction on this item:
    'The Wall in your picture is part of the rebuilt wall of Solomon's Temple, and any male (not females I believe) can go to the Wall. A section of the original wall is to the left of the Wall in the picture, inside where the two Walls meet. I remember distinctly going there as well, and I am not Jewish- hehe. There are times however when the older men (rabis?) who seem to be in charge of the area will really put up a fuss if a group arrives with a non-Israeli/approved tour guide. Likewise, they will hoot and shout if the group continues on up to the Temple Mount, since the Orthodox NEVER go up there for fear of treading on the place where the Holy of Holies was.But actually this is a two way street, because when my group went to the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth we were barred by the Christian Arabs at the door because our guide WAS an Israeli guide. One other observation I just remembered about the Wall- there is a famous picture of Pope John Paul kissing the wall, and the last time I heard he was NOT Jewish.'

    Martin_S. also reacted. He wrote:

    Pieter, Shalom:

    I took a look at your Jerusalem page and wanted to comment on several things.

    The wailing wall is accessable to all who want to visit it, not only Jews. I personally have taken Christian and Budhist friends there and they have put their own prayers in those cracks in the wall and said their own silent prayers.

    The wall is also accessable to women, Jewish law just forbids the mixing of the sexes during prayers, so a section for women is screened off so the men may not see the women.

    The Al-Aksa Mosque was built by the then Arab rulers on that particular spot to prevent the rebuilding of the Temple Mount by the Jews at some future date. You mention it as one of the most important religious places in Moslem beliefs, but it is not mentioned in the Koran at all. Mecca and Medina are noted numerous times. It seems that the Jerusalem Mosque has become a political expedient for the Moslems to rant and rave against Israel. But that is common for extremists, does not matter if they are Moslem, Jew, Christian or whatever.

    Did you know that for all the years the Old City of Jerusalem (along with the Jewish religious sites) was under Arab rule, all the Jewish sites were closed to Jews, but today since 1967 when Israel defeated the Jordanian army that occupied the city, the Christian and Moslem religious sites have been open to all, yet Israel is seen as being unfair, why??

    It is interesting to note that outside the gate opposite the mosque, leading outside the city walls, there is a graveyard. This also was put there with the specific purpose of preventing the Jewish Messiah from returning, you ask why, well the reason is that he cannot enter a graveyard.

    The section you show in your picture is the original wall, which extends further to the left. The part on the far left can only be accessed by a tunnel excavated recently because of the material that was 'dumped' next to it preventing access.

    As for the 'hooting and shouting' of the Orthodox Jews', they do that with anyone who is not dressed exactly like them, they are the extremists and I for one consider them as religious terrorists.

    I for one am for fairness and 'live and let live', I wonder why the whole world cannot accept people for who they are - People - no different from each other, one likes red shoes, the other black, one likes chocolate, the other cream, one believes in Christ, the other in Mohammed......etc, etc....

    Anyway, enough for now, hope you have the energy to read all this.

    Martin

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