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According to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, requests had been made for many years that "an olive oil lamp be placed in the prayer hall of the Western Wall Plaza, as is the custom in Jewish synagogues, to represent the menorah of the Temple in Jerusalem as well as the continuously burning fire on the altar of burnt offerings in front of ...
According to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and author of Minhagei HaKotel, a book of halakhot about the Western Wall, burning is a "pure" way to deal with the notes, but burying them is more honorable. [8] Rabinowitz further states that the letters are buried because they have the status of letters to God. [11]
The Western Stone, beginning at shoulder level of the guide. The Western Stone is a monolithic ashlar (worked stone block) forming part of the lower level of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. This largest stone in the Western Wall is visible within the Western Wall Tunnel. [1] It is one of the largest building blocks in the world. [2]
Western Wall – also known as the Wailing Wall, the accessible part of the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount Walls of Jerusalem National Park – a national park in Tasmania , Australia named after the Walls of Jerusalem for having natural rock formations that resemble the Walls
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.
Best known is the example of the impressive retaining walls of the Temple Mount, readily visible at the Western Wall. Enormous quantities of stone were needed for these structures and the remains of the numerous quarries used can still be found, especially in the vicinity of Jerusalem's Old City, notably those to the north known as Solomon's ...
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (= western bulwark), was a German defensive line built during the late 1930s. Started in 1936, opposite the French Maginot Line, it stretched more than 630 km (390 mi) from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland.
Western Wall. The Kotel compromise (or Western Wall compromise or Kotel plan or Western Wall plan, Hebrew: מתווה הכותל, Mitveh Ha'Kotel, lit."The Western Wall outline") is a compromise reached between orthodox and non-orthodox Jewish denominations, according to which the non-Orthodox "mixed" prayer area for men and women was supposed to be expanded in the southern part of the Western ...