The Western Wall (Hebrew: הכותל המערבי, translit.: HaKotel HaMa'aravi), or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple (515 BCE - 70 CE)....
The Western Wall (Hebrew: הכותל המערבי, translit.: HaKotel HaMa'aravi), or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple (515 BCE - 70 CE). It is sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall (Arabic: il-Mabka), referring to Jews mourning the destruction of the Temple, but this name is becoming less common. The Western Wall is part of the larger religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem called Har ha-Bayit (the Temple Mount) to Jews and Christians, or Al-Haram al-Qudsi al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims. This makes the Western Wall the holiest location in Judaism which is currently accessible to the Jewish people.
Jewish men and women can be found praying at the wall at every hour, though a "Mechitza," or divider, separates the men's section of the wall from the women's section. B'nai Mitzvah celebrations can also be held here, and some boys and girls of age travel from all over the world to have their ceremonies at the Kotel. It is also a tradition to deposit a slip of paper with wishes or prayers on it, into the cracks of the wall, and looking closely, one can see hundreds of tiny, folded papers from almost everyone who visits the wall.
The Temple in Jerusalem was the most sacred building in Judaism. Herod the Great built vast retaining walls around Mount Moriah, expanding the small, quasi-natural plateau on which the First and Second Temples stood into the wide open spaces of the Temple Mount seen today.
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the cow 59:" Verily, whether it be of those who believe, or those who are Jews or Christians or Sabaeans, whosoever believe in God and the last day and act aright, they have their reward at their Lords hand, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve."
Really everyone? Why does it look like idolatry? Because it looks like they are praying to a wall? They aren't. The holiness is not the wall itself, but that the wall was the closest place to where the Old Temple stood.
Or is it how they are moving? They move like that to clear their mind so that they can relate more clearly to G-d. It's the same concept as the repition of a Catholic Rosery, or an evangelists trance.
Obviously, they didn't pray to the wall like duh.... =_=" They believe in one God, just like the Christians & we Muslims do. That wall is just a focal direction/point on where they should face at when performing their prayers, just like we Muslims, facing the Kaba (the black brick cube thingy) at Mecca....
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Or is it how they are moving? They move like that to clear their mind so that they can relate more clearly to G-d. It's the same concept as the repition of a Catholic Rosery, or an evangelists trance.
Oh, and this is how Jesus prayed too...
They believe in one God, just like the Christians & we Muslims do.
That wall is just a focal direction/point on where they should face at when performing their prayers, just like we Muslims, facing the Kaba (the black brick cube thingy) at Mecca....