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Jewish Wailing Wall in danger of falling
Jordan News.Net Sunday 27th April, 2008
Part of one of Judaism's holiest sites, Jerusalem's Western Wall, has started crumbling and needs to be fixed to protect worshippers who bow in prayer before the massive ancient stones.
Each year, some six million people visit what is also known as the Wailing Wall, revered by Jews as the remnant of their Second Temple and Israel's biggest tourist attraction.
The rabbi responsible for the maintenance on the structure has warned that a section repaired more than a century ago is again at risk of falling.
Since the weakened stonework is high on the 60ft wall, the danger from any falling fragment to the crowds who pray at its foot each day is particularly acute.
Israel's Antiquities Authority has said there is no immediate risk to visitors, since the heavy winter rains have passed.
However, the repair work is to begin almost immediately.
Israel has recently hosted record numbers of tourists for the Passover holiday and is preparing for high-profile visitors for the 60th anniversary of its founding. Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
Althor 05-16-08, 12:24 PM |
Oh, please!
Oh, Please!
As John the Baptist proclaimed: “He can make children to Abraham out of these very stones” He has! When you and yours gather against Israel, though a Gonim, my children and I will die alongside the IDF! Israel and the God of Abraham will prevail!
P.S. Look at our faith and conviction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVqwiUtQENg&NR=1
Shema Ysrael...
Althor
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Althor 05-16-08, 12:36 PM |
Anti-Semites
I just made a comment, with civility, and not blowing up myself (like the Palestinians do), but you just swiped it off , and it wasn’t posted. All you want to hear are from those who hate the Jews and Israel! Welcome to a millenarian club! Asshole! Abraham’s son was Isaac, not your cursed forbear born of a traitorous slave. Though Gonims, I, and my sons, will fight with the IDF for Abraham and his true children! The Kingdom will come...even as Israel is today a Nation!
Althor
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Tejas Gunas 04-28-08, 01:57 AM |
oh please...
...stop smoking that “opiate-of-the-masses”. Let’s not make the big doG...ooops, i mean God responsible for the silly buildings of...
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Wailing the Wrecker 04-28-08, 03:39 AM |
Knock it over
Knock it over, religion is all a bunch of tripe anyway..EVERY ONE OF THEM!
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Anonymous 04-28-08, 05:43 AM |
Saint Stephen’s final speech is presented as making an accusation against the Jews of continuing to persecute prophets who spoke out against their sins:
'“Which one of the Prophets did your fathers not persecute, and they killed the ones who prophesied the coming of the Just One, of whom now, too, you have become betrayers and murderers." (7:52)
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Anonymous 04-28-08, 05:48 AM |
the more we ignore the warning below,the more harm will reach to mankind.
He did not call them Abraham’s children, but a 'brood of vipers' [Matt. 3:7]. Oh, that was too insulting for the noble blood and race of Israel, and they declared, 'He has a demon' [Matt 11:18]. Our Lord calls them a 'brood of vipers'; furthermore in John 8 [:39,44] he states: 'If you were Abraham’s children ye would do what Abraham did . . . You are of your father the devil.' It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham’s but the devil’s children, nor can they bear to hear this today.-Martin Luther
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Skeets 04-28-08, 11:46 AM |
The Wailing wall is a wonderful place
There may be a lot of people who believes no money should be spent on the wailing wall.The feeling while you stand there praying is a wonderful feeling. You think of allthe people who have stood there talking to God from all centrys and nations. It has to be a wonderful place to God where so many have come to worship him and will continue to come to talk to God.
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Anonymous 04-28-08, 06:06 PM |
wailing wall
preserve this treasure at all costs. millions of prayers have been put in the wall. It isn’t a huge church that has millions of dollars in it. It is what is left of the temple which was destroyed.
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Anonymous 04-27-08, 10:55 PM |
Jewish Wailing Wall in danger of falling
The wall is made by man and time will turn it into rubble. The important thing is not the temple, for the temple was raised for God to wish it was offered in Honour of. Moving to the future, Once the planet discovers the Love Jesus teaches us, we will discover the best path to find God. AT this point there will be no need for “Wailing” .. At this point we will all be rejoicing :) and the new temple is contrusted from Christs love as he teaches us
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Sammy 04-28-08, 01:42 AM |
Let it fall, nothing lasts forever, everything has its timelimit
There are too many places of worship on this planet, where billions are being spent yearly to maintain these storic places of worship along with many decaying buildings.
I believe that the money that is being spent to keep these decaying buildings were spent to benefit humanity a lot of human lives could be saved along with making the world a better place to live in.
Society changes and even the ways of worshipping changes, it is useless hammering into people’s minds old established traditions and not leaving room for people to change their way of worshipping to suit their needs.
Sammy
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ed9898 04-28-08, 08:42 AM |
Aim your hatred and proselytizing elsewhere
$Billions go toward thousands of churches and mosques across the world, and all these posters here complain about the Jews trying to spend a bit of money to preserve one of the oldest and simplest symbols of worship in the world.
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yitzd 04-28-08, 12:29 PM |
It is not a wailing wall, no one wails there or catches whales there.
It is the Western Wall plain and simple
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yitzd 04-28-08, 12:30 PM |
Wailing wall?
It is not a wailing wall, no one WAILS there or bawls there or catches whales there.
It is simply the Western Wall
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Meto 04-28-08, 01:58 PM |
Western Wall
The WALL should be preserved, at any cost.
Both the abominations situated on to of the Mount should be bulldozed out of there.
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Meto 04-28-08, 02:06 PM |
Western Wall
Correction, (ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN)
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Dr. phil P.h.d on history 04-30-08, 07:01 PM |
I cant beleive this!
You guys are bringing down complaints against the Jewish nation based on what it says in your bible, well, guess what? The Jewish bible does not speak about bloodsucking vipers or whatever, so you cannot prosecute the Jews due to what it says in your bible. And you cannot tell me that the Jews took out that part because they can retort back that you added the part about bloodsuckers.
I apologize if my words will hurt certain individuals, but what has to be said most certainly has to be said.
an atheist i may be but this is common sense
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