‘Divine Cleaning Team’ at the Western Wall Busy on the Job

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Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of the Western Wall, was busy on Tuesday supervising the “divine cleaning crew” of the holy site who were busy with long sticks extracting the myriad small notes with written prayers that were stuffed into the crevices of the ancient wall by visitors from Israel and abroad.

Twice a year the Rabbi of the Western Wall oversees collection of God’s Mail, as it were, in order to make way for the next half-year’s onslaught to come.

The notes that are collected are brought to Jerusalem’s ancient Mount of Olives cemetery, where they are ritually buried in accordance with Jewish tradition.