Jerusalem General Tips by Martin_S.

Favorite Thing: In the background you can see David's Tower in the old city of Jerusalem. The sign points the way to Jaffa Gate, one of the traditional 7 gates leading the way into the city. It is one of the two main gates, the Damascus gate being the other.


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Favorite Thing: This is Jaffa gate the second largest gate of the seven that ring the city wall of old Jerusalem.


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Favorite Thing: This is the wall protecting David's Tower INSIDE the monumental outer walls. This could be used as an inner bastion if the outer walls were breached in a siege.


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Favorite Thing: The "Wailing Wall" as it is popularly know is the western wall of what was once the largest and proudest temple in the Jewish Empire. All that remains today is this partial wall. It is divided into two sections because of the religious Jews men and women are not allowed to pray at the wall together. this picture shows the womens section where Zohara and Tal took Carmen.


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Favorite Thing: Zohara and Tal took Carmen to get a closer look and explained to her the "belief" that here at this holy relic of the Jewish empire that was lost, if you put a piece of paper in the wall with your prayer printed upon it, that GOD will read it and answer your prayer. So far I have never met anyone for whom this worked, but maybe they all asked to be taken to heaven immediately.....


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Favorite Thing: The Western Wall is the proper name for the remains of this temple, but it is better known as the wailing wall. Here you can see the mens section and the men sitting down to pray for hours. The men in the black hats (you can see one in the far distance) are from one of the super religious sects in Judiasm and they will STAND at the wall with prayer books in hand nodding their heads in a back and forth rythm. This type of "nodding" is called davening, what it is for have no idea, but they stand there bobbing back and forth and mumbling to themselves


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Favorite Thing: I told you about the belief that if you left a prayer at the wailing wall that god would answer it. Well here is one of the super religious Jews here at the wailing wall, with his mobile phone, I guess he had a direct line to god.


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Favorite Thing: This is a closeup showing the papers stuffed in each and every crack of the wailing wall. As high as you can reach, and some higher, as if the person who put them there was riding on the back of another person. You can see for yourself that there is zero room for more. Each small scratch, crack or joint is filled with these prayer papers. I believe they come periodically and clean them out, otherwise over the space of a few weeks the believers would fill up every available space. Carmen, Zohara and Tal all put in papers in the womens section...


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Favorite Thing: Here you can see the Moslem Mosque that stands upon the ruins of the Jewish Temple. The mosque was orignally constructed to prevent the rebuilding of the Jewish temple, today it is one of the main mosques in Jerusalem.


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Favorite Thing: Archeologists contine to dig and uncover sections of the old city of Jerusalem. This shows some of the new digs just outside the area of the wailing wall. They believe it may have been an annex to the Temple complex. This area is not yet open to the public.


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