Get inspired by Western Wall and the Temple Mount

Today I am very excited, and happy to be in Israel, that I feel like kissing the ground something similar to what Nelson Mandela did after returning home from exile. May be I feel this way because the people here have such a high sense of patriotism,

which has more to do with the God they worship, than it has to do with the country by itself.I have arrived at the Western Wall and the Jewish presence here is so diverse in feeling that it is very hard to put it down in words. You have people here lamenting on the destructions of their temple, so they cry out to God before this wall and stick petitions of prayer in its crevices. You will also see celebrations here, like marriages and Bar-Mitzvahs.

To take you a little into the history behind the wall, Jewish King David bought this land and David’s son, King Solomon, completed the first temple. Around this era, the nation was so prosperous that it is said that gold was as common as silver and silver was as common as stones. The 1st Temple was destroyed during the invasion of the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The 2nd Temple was built and expanded by King Herod, which was burnt in 70 CE by the Romans. Above and behind the wall lies what the Jews call the foundation stone of the world as it was here where God tested the Jewish patriarch Abraham, who passed, thus pleasing God. As for recent history, the city Jerusalem was divided for 19 years from 1948 to 1967 but after the six-day war against Egypt, Syria and Jordan, Israel got back the rest of Jerusalem and much more.

Before I left this place, I happened to ask a learned Jewish man, who looked like what they call a Rabi, and I asked him as to what does the western wall actually signify. He turned to me and said that, this is the place where God’s divine presence (Shekhinah) had presented itself during the time of King Solomon. King Solomon made this prayer that God may watch over this place for it is here that God’s name dwells and that He may take up to his heavenly abode.the prayers that are offered here,

So I left that place feeling awe struck as though every strand of hair on my back and hand stood up. May be this is the Shekhinah effect they talk about.