dimarts, 1 de desembre del 2009

The wall that I have chosen...

I chose the wall, the wall is called "El muro de las lamentaciones" is the holiest site in Judaism. According to popular opinion, is the last remnant of the Temple in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest building. The remaining remnants dating from the time of Herod the Great, who ordered the construction of large retaining walls around Mount Moriah, in the year 37 BC expanding the small plain on which were built the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem and formed what is now known as the Temple Mount.
Commonly face he laments the destruction of the city and the dispersion of the Jewish people, where on Friday a day of special intensity. The tradition of introducing a small paper with a prayer between the cracks of the wall is several centuries old. Among the prayers of Jews include the fervent prayers to God to return to the land of Israel, the return of all Jewish exiles, rebuilding the temple (the third), and the arrival of the messianic was with the coming of Jewish messiah.



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