Avodah: Har Habayit (touching the Kotel)

Avodah: Har Habayit (touching the Kotel)
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Har Habayit (touching the Kotel)

Continuing the discussion, I stumbled upon an interesting testimony.

In Av 1929, the Rayatz, 6th Admor of Chabad, visited Eretz-Yisrael and
on his first afternoon in Yerushalayim, visited the Kotel. According
to the Chabad in-house history of the events, "Masa HaRebbe b'Eretz
HaKodesh" by David Ze'ev Rotenberg, 1999 (no publisher; distribution:
Eshel - Kfar Chabad), p. 81, the
Rebbe asked if it is the custom to kiss the stones and he did do so.

Btw, on p. 77, translating from a letter he wrote to his daughter
Sheina, he declares that as the Holy City has theatres, one can
perform kri'ah twice and
he did - once upon seeing the city from afar on the train near Betar and the
second time at the Kotel.

And pp. 131-137 describe his visit to Ma'arat HaMachpela in Chevron inside!

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Yisrael Medad
Shiloh
Israel