What is the Western Wall (Wailing Wall)? Informational tour of the holy place for Jews in Jerusalem

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Your tour guide
Zahi Shaked

The Western Wall, or “Wailing Wall”, is the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people. Located in the Old City of Jerusalem, it is the western support wall of the Temple Mount. Thousands of people journey to the wall every year to visit and recite prayers. These prayers are either spoken or written down and placed in the cracks of the wall. The wall splits into two sections, one area for males and the other for females. It is one of the major highlights in any tour of the Old City.

King Herod built this wall in 20 BCE during an expansion of the Second Temple. When the Romans destroyed the temple in 70 CE, the support wall survived. For hundreds of years, people prayed in the small area of the wall that could be seen. In 1967, following the Six-Day War, Israelis dug below the ground of the wall, exposing two more levels. They also cleared the area around the wall to create the Western Wall Plaza that visitors see today.

The site is open to all people and is the location of various ceremonies, such as military inductions and bar mitzvahs. The Western Wall is free and is open all day, year-round. Women and men should dress modestly in the Western Wall Plaza. To pray at the wall, women should have their legs and shoulders covered. Men should cover their heads.

My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered licensed tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.

Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.

In order to fulfill this "calling" in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)

Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, "glide" over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water, and "see" the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many-faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be implanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.

[lidialia]

In Jerusalem the three monotheistic religions coexist, with their traditions but also united in faith in God and this is significant... 🌟🙏🕊thanks Zahi

[ronaldmiller]

SHABBAT SHALOM ZAHI, , GREAT VIDEO!!!! WE LOVE THIS DINNER VIDEO WATCH, ,.. WE LOVE NIGHT TIME WALKS ALSO ITS GETTING COOLER AT NIGHT. TODA !! FOR THE HISTORY OF KING HERODS, , AND THE GREAT WESTERN WALL AFTER SHABBAT MEALS TONIGHT WE WILL ALSO GO THERE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO PRAY, .. TODA !!! HASHEM BLESS YOU ALWAYS...

[railarosenberg]

Feel great joy to see the Wailing Wall again. I feel ”at home” there, but all my notes have probably ended up on the Mount of Olives now. Thank You looks good Zahi!

[dolcesalman]

Beautiful video zahi prayer for me may Lord God Jesus Christ give me a good job and change me and my daughter life happy life right now lots of problems troubles around us and happen everyday prayer for us

[nurulmenik]

Syallom my brother zahi
God bless you all tks
Amazing 👍👍👍👍

[SaintCharbelMiracleworker]

Thank you for the informative clip. The men with side-curls what group are they in? Jesus had side curls according to the Manoppello Veil of Veronica.

[JesusChristEmmanuel]

It’s called davening : to recite the prescribed prayers in a Jewish liturgy bowing to God.

[cynthiarosas]

Everyone needs salvation here are the words of salvation please forgive me jesus im a sinner come into my heart and save me from my sin I no that you are the savior and I no that you died for me on calvary and I no that God raise you from the dead and you are alive and I thankyou for your salvation in Jesus holy name amen and its important to always ask for forgiveness every night

[JesusChristEmmanuel]

1 Corinthians 11 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I have delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man who prayeth or prophesieth, having his head covered, dishonoreth his head.
5 But every woman who prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head, for that is one and the same as if she were shaven.
6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, inasmuch as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head, because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it comely that a woman should pray unto God uncovered?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.
16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
17 Now in this I declare unto you that I praise you not: that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that those who are approved may be made manifest among you.
20 When ye therefore come together into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.
21 For in eating, every one taketh his own supper ahead of another, and one is hungry and another is drunken.
22 What? Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not!
23 For I have received from the Lord that which also I delivered unto you: that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread;
24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me.”
25 In the same manner also He took the cup when He had supped, saying, “This cup is the new testament in My blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death until He come.
27 Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and then let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
33 Therefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

[cynthiarosas]

Put these names on the wall Juanita Bernie jr roy Cynthia ruby Pedro Jacob joshua Natalie little Jacob Dominick Andrew Emilio amor Emma elianna skye and little Jacob baby Jay

[JesusChristEmmanuel]

1 Timothy 2 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
2 for kings and for all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4 who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,
7 for which I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ and lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
8 It is my will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
9 In like manner also, that women should adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobermindedness, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly array,
10 but, as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression.
15 Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobermindedness.