When did the western wall twitter service let Jews tweet a prayer to god?”
cracks in the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. In recent years they could fax or e-mail their prayers — and now they can tweet them, too. The Western Wall now has its own address on the social networking service, Twitter, allowing believers around the globe to have their prayers placed between its 2,000 year-old-stones without leaving their armchairs. The service’s founder, Alon Nil, says petitioners can tweet their prayers, and they will be printed out and taken to the wall, where they will join the thousands of handwritten notes placed by visitors who believe their requests will find a shortcut to God by being deposited there. The 25-year-old economist started the Twitter page three weeks ago and has already received hundreds of prayers. “It all started a while after the riots in Iran, and I realized the potential of Twitter,” Nil said. “There are an infinite number of uses for Twitter, and I thought ‘What can I do that is new and creative and might benefit the people of Is
The western wall in Jerusalem has kept up with technology going from allowing people to write their prayers on paper & stuffing it in the cracks in the wall to emailing their prayers. They have now started allowing people to tweet their prayers from the comfort of their homes. The tweets will be printed out and placed in the wall. You can make your tweets privately or publicly free of charge although there are requests for donation. The wall is believed to be the last remnants of old biblical temples belonging to King Solomon. People send in prayers as they feel its a spiritual place closer to God.
JERUSALEM — For centuries, people have stuffed prayers written on scraps of paper into the ancient cracks in the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. In recent years they could fax or e-mail their prayers – and now they can tweet them, too. The Western Wall now has its own address on the social networking service, Twitter, allowing believers around the globe to have their prayers placed between its 2,000 year-old-stones without leaving their armchairs. The service’s founder, Alon Nil, says petitioners can tweet their prayers, and they will be printed out and taken to the wall, where they will join the thousands of handwritten notes placed by visitors who believe their requests will find a shortcut to God by being deposited there.
