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	Western Wall (BiblePlaces.com)
		of the Wailing Wall in the 1800s and the transformation from the Wailing Wall to the Western Wall in the 1960s.
		Known in recent centuries as the "Wailing Wall," this was built by Herod the Great as the retaining wall of the Temple Mount complex.
		The Western Wall (Hebrew University) A brief description of the history and tradition associated with the wall.
	www.bibleplaces.com /westernwall.htm (725 words)

	The Western Wall
		The Western Wall in the midst of the Old City in Jerusalem is the section of the Western supporting wall of the Temple Mount which has remained intact since the destruction of the Second Jerusalem Temple (70 C.E.).
		In 1968 the ground in front of the Wall was excavated to reveal two of the buried rows of stone, and the Wall then consisted of seven layers of huge, marginally dressed ("Herodian") stones from the Second Temple, above which are four layers of smaller, plainly dressed stones from the Roman or Byzantine periods.
		The Wall was liberated on the third day of the Six-Day war (June 7, 1967) by Israel's parachutists breaking through the "bloody gate" which the mufti had opened.
	mosaic.lk.net /g-wall.html (1618 words)

	Wailing Wall - The Western Wall
		Jews around the world turn their eyes to the Western Wall, also know as the Wailing Wall, which is the closest location to the place where the temple used to stand where Jews can pray.
		It should be noted that the Wailing Wall known today is not a part of the temple, but a part of the wall that was created to support the temple's structure.
		The name Wailing Walled is named 'El-Burak' by the Muslims, after the winged horse that brought Muhammad the prophet in the Night Journey (Asra) from Mekka to Jerusalem.
	www.trekker.co.il /english/western-wall-wailing-wall.htm (608 words)

	The Wailing wall
		This wall is the western wall of an ancient courtyard and for that reason it is also referred to as "The Western Wall." The Romans destroyed the Jewish Temple in 70 AD after the Jewish people revolted against Roman rule.
		The reason people pray at the wall are because it is believed to be the closest point to the Holy of Holies, the holiest room of the old temple.
		This is why the wall became known as "the Wailing Wall." Many events take place at the wall such as religious gatherings and celebrations.
	mt.essortment.com /wailingwall_rsef.htm (497 words)

	“Western Wall” or “Wailing Wall”?
		Is it "the Western Wall" or "the Wailing Wall"?
		Indeed, in the early centuries after the destruction of the Temple, Jews were prohibited by the Roman authorities from entering the city of Jerusalem at all, and the customary place for mourning the Temple was the Mount of Olives, which overlooks the Temple Mount from the east.
		In fact despite its hoary sound, "Wailing Wall" is a strictly 20th-century English usage introduced by the British after their conquest of Jerusalem from the Turks in 1917.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/wallname.html (795 words)

	Wailing wall - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They watched with astonishment as the slabs of the wall were connected to one another, each new piece bringing the wall closer to the very tip of their nose, like some sort of looming mythological dragon.
		With a speed uncharacteristic of Israel the irrelevant wall is being uprooted and replaced with the new structure.
		Before the wall - people here divide their lives into "before" and "after" - Adnan Iyyad, Abdullah's father, brought his son to a taxi that waited every morning by the gas station at the entrance to Azzariyeh, lifted him out of the wheelchair and placed him in the cab, which had yellow (Israeli) license plates.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=383663&sw=wall (3062 words)

	Wailing Wall - Kotel Hama'aravi- Western Wall - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of ...
		The wall, apparently an outer retaining wall or surrounding wall of the Second temple or the Herodian restoration, was the only part of the Temple remaining after Titus sacked Jerusalem.
		The wall was a frequent point of friction with Arabs.
		Structures built near the wall were cleared, and archeologists dug out parts of the wall that had been buried.
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/WailingWall.htm (665 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Wailing Wall? by Thomas Friedman
		In other words, the Israeli left wants the wall to be built in a way that makes it safe for Israel to leave the West Bank and the right wants the wall built in a way that makes it safe for Israel to stay in the West Bank.
		If the wall were along the lines of the Clinton plan, it would signal Palestinians that a deal is there for the taking — and could be further adjusted in peace talks — while providing Israelis security and signaling the settlers beyond the wall that they have no future.
		If this wall is used to unilaterally bite off chunks of the West Bank to absorb far-flung Israeli settlements, then "it will just become a new and longer Wailing Wall," said the Israeli political theorist Yaron Ezrahi.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9723 (700 words)

	What is the Wailing Wall?
		The Wailing Wall or Western Wall is the remains of the great Jewish temple, which had stood for close to 500 years.
		Praying at the Wailing Wall signifies being in the presence of the Divine.
		Though the Wailing Wall has been considered the holiest of places on earth for Jews, it has also been the source of grief and war.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-the-wailing-wall.htm (707 words)

	The Strange Story of the False Wailing Wall (WOVOCA.com - Earth Mother Crying! © )
		The "Western Wall" that the Talmuds and the writers of the Midrashim referred to was that remnant wall that was at one time the Western Wall of the Holy of Holies from the ruins of a later Temple than that of Herod.
		The "Wailing Wall" is actually the outer "Western Wall" of the Haram esh-Sharif which I have shown in my book to be the Western Wall of the former Fort Antonia and it has nothing to do with ANY of the former Temples of the Jews.
		The Western Wall that later Jews were prophesying would NOT be destroyed was the Western Wall of the Holy of Holies of the Temple that was attempted to be built in the time of Constantine and Julian (in the fourth century).
	wovoca.com /controversies-wailing-wall.htm (9229 words)

	Wailing Wall Phenomenon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wailing Wall and Orbs seen near the wall.
		The wall is part of a sensitive religious complex One of the world's most revered sacred sites - the Western Wall in Jerusalem - is the focus of fevered speculation after apparently springing a leak.
		The Wall - known for centuries as the Wailing Wall because it was there that Jews bewailed the loss of their Temple - is part of the most sensitive religious complex in the world.
	www.oz.net /~clefevre/Wall.html (1133 words)

	Wole Soyinka's "Wailing Wall"
		One of Soyinka's main points in "Wailing Wall" is to remind his readers that what went on in his tiny individual jail cell does not concern only himself, or Nigeria, or even all prisoners of conscience -- it should be everyone's problem, everywhere.
		In the preface, Soyinka notes that the walls of his cell were topped with broken glass, a standard method of preventing people from climbing over them.
		Therefore, to use the sky as the graveyard (not the heaven) of the wailing wall's dead connects them with all deaths everywhere and with the part of each person that every cruel and savage act kills.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /soyinka/wail1.html (813 words)

	The Strange Story of the False Wailing Wall
		The "Western Wall" that the Talmuds and the writers of the Midrashim referred to was that remnant wall that was at one time the Western Wall of the Holy of Holies from the ruins of a later Temple than that of Herod.
		The "Wailing Wall" is actually the outer "Western Wall" of the Haram esh-Sharif which I have shown in my book to be the Western Wall of the former Fort Antonia and it has nothing to do with ANY of the former Temples of the Jews.
		The Western Wall that later Jews were prophesying would NOT be destroyed was the Western Wall of the Holy of Holies of the Temple that was attempted to be built in the time of Constantine and Julian (in the fourth century).
	www.askelm.com /temple/t000701.htm (8956 words)

	WAILING WALL
		The remnant of the wall for the holy of holies was where all Jews gathered and considered the Western Wall.
		The western wall about which it was prophesied [by Jews in the Talmudic period] that it would never be destroyed, is the Western Wall of the actual sanctuary, and in the course of time, it [the Western Wall of Herod’s Temple] was razed to the ground completely" (The Western Wall, p.27).
		It was a mystical set of circumstances, not at all godly, that caused the Jews to consider the present Wailing Wall as part of the temple.
	mikeblume.com /wailing.htm (1792 words)

	“Western Wall” or “Wailing Wall”?
		Is it "the Western Wall" or "the Wailing Wall"?
		Indeed, in the early centuries after the destruction of the Temple, Jews were prohibited by the Roman authorities from entering the city of Jerusalem at all, and the customary place for mourning the Temple was the Mount of Olives, which overlooks the Temple Mount from the east.
		In fact despite its hoary sound, "Wailing Wall" is a strictly 20th-century English usage introduced by the British after their conquest of Jerusalem from the Turks in 1917.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/History/wallname.html (795 words)

	Wailing Wall in Kazimierz - October 2005 photos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The broken pieces of the stones were put into a memorial wall, which the guide said is called the Jewish Wailing Wall.
		The outside of the wall is shown in the photo above.
		The three photos below, taken in October 2005, show the Wailing Wall, on the inside of the cemetery; it was constructed from fragments of grave stones.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Poland/Kazimierz/WailingWall.html (102 words)

	The Wailing Wall
		his is the "Wailing Wall" where people from all over the world come to pray and touch the wall.
		The Western Wall or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple.
		It is sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall, or as the al-Buraq Wall, in a mix of English and Arabic.
	www.sacredsymbols.com /wailingwall.html (114 words)

	Wailing Wall in 1960s (Life in the Holy Land)
		Some of the most striking differences are the pre-1967 photographs of the Western Wall.
		Arabs promised Jews the right to visit their most holy place in the world, yet Israeli Jews were banned from the Western Wall without exception through this time.
		The ramshackle neighborhood adjacent to the Western Wall had been cleared to make room for a large prayer plaza.
	www.lifeintheholyland.com /wailing_wall_1960s.htm (355 words)

	Wailing Wall Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wailing Wall cartoon 1 - catalog reference cgr0335
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		Wailing Wall cartoon 2 - catalog reference bab0032
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/w/wailing_wall.asp (210 words)

	The Wailing Wall - Cracow, Poland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I wailed the wail of a wounded animal.
		A voice told me in Yiddish that it was good to cry here, that this was "our Wailing Wall." I remembered only a few words in Yiddish from childhood, but the consoling message was inexplicably clear.
		From broken headstones and remnants of holy places destroyed by the Nazis, a mosaic wall was built around the synagogue and cemetery.
	www.jewishmag.com /44mag/wailingwall/wailingwall.htm (1187 words)

	The Western (Wailing) Wall
		(Archaeology of the wall.) Those who visited before 1967 often wept here over the loss of the Temple, and it came to be known as "the Wailing Wall" -- a name now avoided, for reasons we shall see.
		A second reason: other parts of the Temple's retaining walls were also exposed on the south and east, but this western section was closest to the Jewish Quarter.
		(In fact, no wall of the Temple building itself remains, while in addition to this western retaining wall, large portions of its southern and eastern counterparts are also intact.
	www.netours.com /jrs/2003/westwall.htm (567 words)

	Salon News \| Bottles fly at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Wall is so central to Israeli civil life that Netanyahu prayed there the morning of last Monday's election; Barak did the same the morning after his victory.
		Precisely because the Wall is the holiest site in Judaism, it has been the setting for repeated confrontations between non-Orthodox congregations, which permit women to fully participate in worship services, and the ultra-Orthodox known as haredim, who consider such practice to be blasphemy.
		But those partners are mutually exclusive, and the rancor at the Wall on Shavuot helps explain why, for it revealed the chasm that still separates the traditional Israeli conflation of church and state from the American-style separation that liberals here now seek.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/05/21/wall/index.html (963 words)

	builtwailingwall
		One of the most recognizable sights from antiquity is the wall surrounding the Temple Mount (Haram) in Jerusalem, part of which is known as the Western or Wailing Wall, the most sacred site of Jews.
		The wall is a massive and imposing sight 2,000 years supposedly after it was built.
		Josephus does mention that one wall is left standing, the one that enclosed the CITY on the West side.
	www.biblemysteries.com /lectures/builtwailingwall.htm (1106 words)

	The Liberated Wailing Wall
		The Liberated Wailing Wall has recorded a total of eleven albums, most recently Behold Your God—a unique worship experience that is both ancient and modern.
		After you hear the Liberated Wailing Wall, you may not like gefilte fish, but you will know more about the Jewish roots of our faith and have a deeper understanding of God's Word.
		The Liberated Wailing Wall are full-time missionaries on the staff of Jews for Jesus.
	www.jewsforjesus.org /programs/lww/ - http://www.jewsforjesus.org/programs/lww (1093 words)

	the wailing wall (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For 500 years, until the Arabs captured Jerusalem, this whole southwest area, where the Wailing Wall, the Kotel, was pretty much a garbage dump.
		The women of the new Roman city built to replace Jerusalem were instructed, by Roman law, to take their garbage to the dump daily (wall of the old Temple site).
		The prayer area was established along a 68 foot section of the wall with a width of around 10 feet which was closed off by a wall running parallel to the Kotel.
	www.geocities.com /theseder2/wailingwall.htm (505 words)

	United Brethren: The Wailing Wall (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I had a very peaceful feeling when I was at the wall, and I was thinking about Jesus and that he could have been there.
		Then the way they have the women on one side and the men on the other: the young men were getting their bar mitzvahs, and the mothers were all standing on their chairs to try and see what was going on." NYT Travel, October 9, 2005.
		Only after the Six-Day War in 1967 did it become de rigueur in Jewish circles to say "Western Wall"— a reflection of the feeling, first expressed by official Israeli usage and then spreading to the Diaspora, that, with the reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, there was no longer anything to wail about.
	headlife.blogspot.com /unitedbrethren/2005/10/wailing-wall.html (338 words)

	Jewish women barred from worshipping at Wailing Wall - theage.com.au
		Women are permitted to pray at the Wall, in a section separate from that of the men, but ultra-Orthodox tradition holds reading from the Torah is a male preserve.
		In the past, attempts by the women to worship at the Wall, while wearing prayer shawls and reading from the Torah, have provoked anger and violence from the ultra-Orthodox community.
		The Wailing Wall is a retaining wall of the Second Temple compound, destroyed by the Romans in AD70, part of the disputed hilltop that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call Haram al-Sharif.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/07/1049567618635.html (381 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News - City Synagogue Recreates Wailing Wall
		Yelena Marysheva, the synagogue's spokeswoman, said the St. Petersburg impromptu version of the wall is aimed at helping reconciliation and mutual understanding between the city's various confessions.
		Jews believe that the Western Wall in Jerusalem, which is also referred to as Wailing Wall, is the only surviving part of the temple of King Solomon.
		The Western Wall is considered the most sacred spot in Jewish religious tradition because of its proximity to the Western Wall of the Holy of Holies in the temple, where believers say a divine presence is felt.
	www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=3472 (470 words)

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