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Western Wall. The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', [1] often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق, Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq ['ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ'raːq]), is a portion of ancient limestone wall in the ...
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 ...
Shmuel Rabinovitch, also spelled Rabinowitz ( Hebrew: שמואל רבינוביץ) (born 4 April 1970, Jerusalem) is an Orthodox rabbi and Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel. [1] [2] In his duties as Rabbi of the Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Rabbi Rabinovich maintains the historic traditional Jewish practices of the ...
Local rabbi, Shmulik Fogelman, is collecting prayers to place in the Western Wall, ahead of a trip to Israel with other faith leaders. Local rabbi accepts prayers from community to place in ...
Members of the Israel Defense Forces' Givati Brigade pray the Evening Service at the Western Wall, October 2010. Individual prayer is considered acceptable, but prayer with a quorum of ten Jewish adults—a minyan —is the most highly recommended form of prayer and is required for some prayers.
As part of his role, the Rabbi of the Western Wall is in charge of enforcing the Law on the Preservation of the Holy Places, 1967 in places under his supervision, including the prevention of Sabbath desecration, prevention of inappropriate attire, prevention of Begging and interruption of prayer in the Western Wall plaza, restrictions on the ...
The Western Wall Heritage Foundation is one of the operators. By providing this service, they enable people to view the wall without the expense of traveling there. Virtual Jerusalem began providing the service 5 December 1996 (the first night of Hanukkah) by installing a camera on a yeshiva opposite the Western Wall Plaza. The camera started ...
A man and a woman praying at the Little Western Wall. The Little Western Wall, also known as HaKotel HaKatan (or just Kotel Katan), the Small, or Little Kotel (Hebrew: הכותל הקטן) and the Kleiner Koisel (Yiddish for "Smaller Kotel/Wall"), is a Jewish religious site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem near the Iron Gate to the Temple Mount.