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[3] [4] The Western Wall, in the narrow sense, i.e. referring to the section used for Jewish prayer, is also known as the "Wailing Wall", in reference to the practice of Jews weeping at the site. During the period of Christian Roman rule over Jerusalem (ca. 324–638), Jews were completely barred from Jerusalem except on Tisha B'Av , the day of ...
A woman places a prayer note in the Wall. Today, more than a million prayer notes or wishes are placed in the Western Wall each year. [7] Notes that are placed in the Wall are written in just about any language and format. Their lengths vary from a few words to very long requests. They include poems and Biblical verses.
A Jewish man (top right) shuckling at the Wailing Wall. Shuckling (also written as shokeling ), from the Yiddish word meaning "to shake", [ 1 ] is the ritual swaying [ 2 ] of worshippers during Jewish prayer , usually forward and back but also from side to side.
To give recognition to the immemorial claim that the Wailing Wall is a Holy Place for the Jews, not only for the Jews in Palestine, but also for the Jews of the whole world. To decree that the Jews shall have the right of access to the Wall for devotion and for prayers in accordance with their ritual without interference or interruption.
Some users said the U.S. Embassy’s Weibo account had become a “Wailing Wall” for Chinese people’s economic concerns, referring to the site for Jewish pilgrimage and prayer in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Yehuda Getz, the late official Rabbi of the Western Wall, believed that the Gate represented the point west of the Wall closest to the Holy of Holies. An underground dispute broke out in July 1981 between Jewish explorers who were inside Warren's Gate and Arab guards who came down to meet them through surface cistern entries. [2]
The irregular stones, chipped at the edges, recalled a horizontal Wailing Wall. [6]: 211 On the dados where the wood-clad walls meet stone, the exposed vertical edges are unfinished, a Jewish tradition for cornerstones. We, like stones, are works in progress. [9] Every wall and ceiling surface is covered in paneling.
Early image (c. 1910) of Dr. Joseph Klausner, founder of the Pro–Wailing Wall Committee. The Pro–Wailing Wall Committee was established in Mandatory Palestine on 24 July 1929, [1] by Joseph Klausner, professor of modern Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, [2] to promote Jewish rights at the Western Wall.