Kotel Cleaned for Passover and Rosh Hashanah
As is tradition, volunteers took to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City to remove hundreds of thousands of the small prayer notes.
The Kotel got a spruce up ahead of the Passover holiday.
As is tradition, volunteers took to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City to remove hundreds of thousands of the small prayer notes to G-d tucked into the cracks of Judaism’s holiest site. The papers were then ceremonially buried at the ancient Mount of Olives cemetery, making way for the next wave of notes that are sure to come.
The tradition is repeated each Rosh Hashanah, in an effort to keep the Kotel from becoming too cluttered. The notes are carefully removed using sticks that have been submerged in a mikvah, in a series of events overseen by the Wall’s official rabbi, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
There were no worshippers at the Kotel due to restrictions on gathering in large groups amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
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