What Is The Kotel?

[fonztheiv]

I've found that people think too highly of the Kotel. Shifra told me MMY took their girls to the Kotel right after they landed, tired as anything. I was given to letters to put into the walls of the Kotel. Of course I did it, to fulfil their request, but, it felt weird, even though millions have done it before me. Before I left last time, a few

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[regold]

personally I'm a bit offended, I guess I shouldn't be and every one is entitled to their own feelings and opinions and certainly to express them. But to be able to see where the beis hamikdash stood is an incredibly awe-inspiring experience. I'm sure half the time when people say are you going to the kotel they aren't asking are you going to see that big wall, but rather hey are you going to the closest place we have to the Kodesh Kedashim.
I remember the first time I was at the Kotel, I was really able to visualize the tremendous loss we suffer daily, and that helped redirect my prayers. And no, it wasn't bc ppl put letters there, and ppl cry. But to be able to see the real makom where everything came from. I really don't have the words to express it.
Anyway, I guess I just expressed my opinion and I shouldn't try to change anybody else's, it just bothered me enough to say something.
Kol Tuv Man, Shanah Tova.

[fonztheiv]

im sorry i offended you Ari (and anyone else of you out there. really).

no your absolutely right, to see the place where the beis hamikdash used to be, there are no words to describe it. just to imagine what it looked it, how it used to be, i cant. ive learned maseches middos, about the beis hamikdash, ive seen the diagram, but i just cant even imagine what it looks like. i just wish i coulda been there. when i tore kriah there, and sai the yhi ratzon that ihe B"H should be built, it was just like, oy. but my point is is that the kotel is IT and i just feel ppl put too much stress on the kotel, that the kotel is IT, and it seems to me that ppl are forgetting reason the kotel was put there in the first place.

i wasnt saying no one has kavanah, im sure there are that do, i just cant.

ksivah vachasimah tovah man.