PaRT 3: The Wailing Wall

As we flip a few chapters back into history, this city once was ruled by a man with the name Sulaiman the Magnificent. It is believed he travelled past the quarters of the underprivileged citizens one day and realised a woman of no royal eloquance, with one strong jerk forced out all the rubbish she had brought upon a upon a wall. The Sultan asked with a stern authorative tone " Why do u come so far to dispose your rubbish?". "Oh the Magnificent one, it is a common practice to throw our rubbish on this wall it is said was once a Jewish structure and we shall be blessed with a place in heaven". Curious, the sultan ask his men to clear the piles of rubbish and discovered the Western Wall of the Second Temple. He was determined to bring peace to his land and was said to have bathed the slightly blemished wall with rose water. And till today,ironically with the help of a Muslim, the Jew now at least have a spot to mourn and "wail" the vanished Temple.

Jewish sages state that anyone who prays in the Temple of Jerussalam "it is as if he has prayed before the throne of glory because the gate of heaven is situated there and it is open to hear prayer". This single piece of wall which stands over 50m is the only know remant from the Second Temple conscreted by King David thus thus stands next to the Temple Mount in its importance to the Jewish community.

The Western Wall (Hebrew: HaKotel HaMa'aravi), or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple (516 BCE - 70 CE). The Western Wall is part of the bigger 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. Portions of the wall date to Herodian times, some even a bit earlier. It enclosed a platform for the temple which was approximately 35-40 acres in size--the largest platform for a single religious building in the world The Western Wall is revered for its proximity to the sacred Holy of Holies on the Temple Mount, which is the Most Holy Place in Judaism.