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The Kotel

“Rav Acha said that the Divine Presence has never moved away from the Western Wall”.

Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz writes that “after the destruction of the Temple, God removed His Presence from His sanctuary and placed it upon the Western Wall where it remains in its holiness and honor”.

The Kotel (The Wailing Wall) is one of the most significant sites for the Jewish people. It is known to be the last remnant of the Holy Temple. The Western Wall is one of the support walls built by order of King Herod (37 BCE) at the time of a general reconstruction of the Temple, undertaken to beautify the Temple and enlarge the Temple Mount.

Jews from around the world come here to pray.  Notes of prayers and requests written to G-d are placed between the ancient stones of the Wall.

Kotel
The Kotel (The Wailing Wall) is one of the most significant sites for the Jewish people. It is known to be the last remnant of the Holy Temple. The Western Wall is one of the support walls built by order of King Herod (37 BCE) at the time of a general reconstruction of the Temple, undertaken to beautify the Temple and enlarge the Temple Mount.
Jews from around the world come here to pray.  Notes of prayers and requests written to G-d are placed between the ancient stones of the Wall.

Passed away on the 14th of Iyar. Many of our greatest Sages were sustained at spiritual "tables" richly laden with the greatest delicacies, while their physical tables were almost bare. One such Sage was Rabbi Yehuda bar Ilai, who lived in the time of the Nasi (prince) Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel. It was of no importance to him that he ate only the simplest fare, or even that he lacked proper clothing. His Torah learning sufficed to nourish him, even to the extent that he glowed with happiness and good health.

Passed away (yartzeit) on the 12th of Kislev, 1765-1840. Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch, a Chasidic Rebbe in Europe for forty years and in Safed for ten, was a disciple of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev and the first two Rebbes of the Chernobyl dynasty. His famous book of Chasidic commentary, Bat Ayin, was written in Europe, but he refused to allow it to be printed until he could 'expose' it to the air of the Holy Land and refine it.

Born in 1760 near Butchatch, Galicia (now Poland). Passed away in 1816 in Safed, Eretz Yisrael, on the 27th of Kislev. Rabbi Chaim of Chernovitz, or, better known as the Be'er Mayim Chayim, the title of his book of commentary on the Torah. In his early years he was greatly influenced by Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, who intruduced him to Chassidut. Then he studied under Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg and the Maggid of Mezritch. Later, he spread the teachings of Chassidut throughout Moldavia, a province in northeast Romania.

Passed away (yartzeit) on the 5th of Av. He is buried in the Old Cemetery of Safed. Rabbi Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi - the Holy Ari z"l (Rabbi Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi ben Shlomo) lived from 5294-5332 / 1534-1572 c.e. Rabbi Chayim Vital (the major disciple of the Ariz"l), in his "Introduction to Sha'ar HaHakdamot", printed at the beginning of all editions of Etz Chayim, writes: "The Ari overflowed with Torah. He was thoroughly expert in Tanach, Mishnah, Talmud, Pilpul, Midrash, Agadah, Ma'aseh Bereshit and Ma'aseh Merkavah.