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Placing notes in the Western Wall
Placing notes in the Western Wall refers to the practice of placing slips of paper containing written prayers to God into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The earliest recorded occurrence of such a phenomenon dates from the early 18th century and stems from the Jewish tradition that the Divine Presence rests upon the Western Wall. Over a million notes are placed each year in what has become a custom, not only for tourists, but also for high-profile dignitaries visiting Israel from abroad. The notes are collected twice a year and buried on the nearby Mount of Olives.
==History==
The practice of placing prayer notes into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall began over 300 years ago. The earliest account of this practice is recounted by the Munkatcher Rebbe and is recorded in ''Sefer Ta'amei Ha-minhagim U’mekorei Ha-dinim''. The story involves Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, the ''Ohr Hachaim'', in Morocco. A certain man came to him in great distress after he had become so destitute that he couldn’t afford to buy food for his family. The ''Ohr Hachaim'' wrote him an amulet in Ashuri script on parchment and instructed the man to place it between the stones of the Western Wall.〔Sperling, Avraham Yitzchak (1999). ''Sefer Tamei Ha-minhagim U’mekorei Ha-dinim''; Inyanei Hilula D’Rashbi, p. 270. Jerusalem: Shai Le-morah Publishing.〕 Another story is told involving a student of the ''Ohr Hachaim'' who planned to emigrate to Jerusalem from Morocco. The ''Ohr Hachaim'' instructed him to place a note in the Wall upon his arrival. The pupil, who later became famous as the Chida, attributed his personal success to the note, which read, “Dear God, please let my student Azulai become successful in Israel”.
The rationale behind placing prayer notes in the Wall has been traced to the Midrashic teaching that the Divine Presence has never moved from the Western Wall,〔Exodus Rabbah 2:2.〕 and the Kabbalistic teaching that all prayers ascend to Heaven through the Temple Mount, which the Western Wall abuts.〔〔Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer 35: "Anyone who prays in this place in Jerusalem, it is as if he prayed before the Throne of Glory, for the gate of heaven is there, open to hear all prayers".〕
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