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A girl places a note into a crack of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Placing notes in the Western Wall refers to the practice of placing slips of paper containing written prayers to God into the cracks of the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is claimed that occurrence of such a phenomenon dates from the early ...
Western Wall camera. A screenshot of Aish HaTorah's Western Wall camera. A Western Wall camera, also known as a wallcam, is a live webcam that displays action at the Western Wall live as it is taking place. Some cameras operate all the time. Others refrain from operating during Shabbat and Jewish holy days.
The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized:HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', [ 1 ] is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, often shortened by Jews to the Kotel or Kosel, is ...
A woman places a prayer note in the Wall. The kvitelach placed in the Western Wall differ from the kvitelach given in Hasidic courts, as they contain prayers, requests or messages written directly to God. [6] [27] [28] These prayer notes are folded and wedged into the cracks and crevices of the Wall. [29]
Wilson's Arch. Wilson's Arch (Hebrew: קשת וילסון, romanized: Keshet Vilson) is the modern name for an ancient stone arch in Jerusalem, the first in a row of arches that supported a large bridge connecting the Herodian Temple Mount with the Upper City on the opposite Western Hill. The Arch springs from the Western Wall and is still ...
The Little Western Wall, also known as HaKotel HaKatan (Hebrew: הכותל הקטן) or just Kotel Katan, Kleiner Koisel (Yiddish for "Small Kotel/Wall"), the Small, or Little Kotel, is a Jewish religious site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem near the Iron Gate to the Temple Mount. [1] The wall itself dates from the ...
The practice of placing prayer notes into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall began over 300 years ago. The earliest account of this practice is recounted by the Munkatcher Rebbe and is recorded in Sefer Ta'amei Ha-minhagim U’mekorei Ha-dinim. The story involves Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, the Ohr Hachaim, in Morocco.
The Western Wall Tunnel (Hebrew: מנהרת הכותל, translit.: Minharat Hakotel) is a tunnel exposing the Western Wall slightly north from where the traditional, open-air prayer site ends and up to the Wall's northern end. Most of the tunnel is in continuation of the open-air Western Wall and is located under buildings of the Muslim Quarter ...