What is the origin, process and reason behind placing notes in the Western Wall?
What is the origin, process and reason behind placing notes in the Western Wall? Dear Rabbi Simmons, When did the custom of placing prayers on scraps of paper in Jerusalem’s Western Wall begin? Who, if anyone, collects these prayers and what is done with them? What’s the folklore, if any, around this Jewish ritual? Thank you, DaveAnswer: First, please know that you can send your own prayer note to the Western Wall (Kotel) without going to Jerusalem yourself. Simply click into Aish.com’s Wall Camera site. Aish.com receives thousands of prayers via email. Each one is printed out (albeit in a very small font – God had good eyesight) and each day a yeshiva student places the messages into the cracks of the Wall. It is a centuries-old tradition to place notes into the Wall. To answer your question why, let’s go to the distant country of Morocco in the 18th century… “Do you really think I should move to Israel
