Wall of Tears

The Western Wall
(heb. הַכּוֹתֶל (ha-Kotel) — the Wall, short for הַכֹּתֶל הַמַעֲרָבִי (ha-Kotel ha-Maaravi) — Western Wall) (arab. حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق (Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq) — Wailing Wall)
The Arabs saw how the Jews prayed and mourned the temple at the wall, so they called this place the Wailing Wall. The Jews themselves call it the Western Wall, or simply the Wall.

The part (485 m long) of the retaining wall around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which survived after the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 AD
The wall was erected by the king Herod (37-4 years BC) as a supporting The wall supporting the earthen embankment, which was poured to increase the area of the Temple Mount during the reconstruction and expansion of the Temple building.

This site was chosen because it was closest to the Holy of Holies.

Today 23 Shvat 5730 AD Friday, (19 April 2024)

Sector for ladies | Webcams at the Wailing Wall

Nearby houses were demolished, people were resettled, and the site was cleared.
This site is considered a synagogue and it contains the requirements for visiting the synagogue - a covered head, separate places for prayer for men and women.
There are rabbis and ministers who, in particular, take prayer notes out of the slots when they are full.
These notes are not destroyed, but buried.
More than a million notes - prayer requests - are received annually.

Today, Wall of Tears replaces the temple in some way. This is the place of the united prayer of the Jews.
It is this section of the wall that is chosen because it is closest to the place where the Holy of Holies was.
There is an opinion that the crying wall is made of the stones of the temple. In fact, these are not stones of the temple, but the original stones of the "wall" around the temple, which King Herod the Great erected.

If you look at the masonry, you will notice a difference in the sizes of the lower rows of stones and the upper ones. The upper, smaller stones were laid much later and only the lower ones were large - the original stones of the times of King Herod the Great.