Hakotel hamaaravi - the Wailing Wall
These women are walking backwards - the tradition I follow after communing with the Wall.
The Western Wall Tunnels Tour
The Dome on the Rock (not a mosque but rather a shrine)
A Mikvah (ritual bath) perhaps for vessels not people
2,000 year old plaster - still working. Rules for a Mikvah:
you must have water coming from nature; you must have nothing on separating you from the water and you must be totally immersed.
We reach the other side of the Kotel
This length of the wall is 14 metres long, 4 1/2 metres deep, 570 tons, how it got there is unknown but guessed at with wheels and rollers.
This wall was outside the Temple - imagine the inside!
This wall is closest to the Holy of Holies
Women are praying at this part of the Wall. I touch it and make a silent prayer of gratitude.
The arches above the Western Wall - the Temple Mount
We walk alongside Herodian masonry (unaltered), Herodian cisterns, columns and along a Herodian street.
Carved out of this, a mountainside.
I am standing on a street that's 2000 years old!
Mountainside waiting 2,000 years to be moved away to make way for paving stones to be laid.
Aquaduct tunnel and reservoir.
The Romans, under the Roman Emperor, Adrian, built these arches over the aqueduct.
This at the time Jews were forbidden to come here. But the Jews have always prayed towards the Wall.
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