Shalom all!
I prepared this short blog post to show you, in pictures, how the prayer-processing looks on my end. Hope you enjoy:
1. Printing: After the prayers have been received, the next step is printing them. Fortunately, I posses the amazing one-of-a-kind prayer printer!
2. Rolling: When the printer has finished printing (or, the toner ran out), the pages are cut to strips using a utility knife. Then the strips are rolled into small scrolls. Here’s how it looks like when we’re just getting started:
And a good few hours later:
3. Driving: Now that the prayers are ready, it’s time to go to Jerusalem!(I should mention that this road-sign was photographed while I was at the passenger’s seat 
):
4. Getting inside the Old City: We have arrived in Jerusalem. The Old City has a wall surrounding it, and the Jaffa Gate is the nearest place to go through:
We have reached the Western Wall – the Kotel! Here’s a picture of a wooden box filled with prayers with the Western Wall in the background:
Here’s a picture of me standing on a chair, sticking my hand inside the Wall:
And eventually…
These are just some of the prayers that were placed. At the end of the day, all the prayers from the box found their final resting place in the Western-Wall.
You can also watch the entire process on a video report Reuters made about me & TweetYourPrayers (Link).
Shalom all,
About two weeks ago Rev. Bosco Peters from New-Zealand wrote in his blog about TweetYourPrayers and @TheKotel. I was excited to learn that a Reverend wrote about this service. Most of my followers are in fact Christians, and they are responsible to most of the prayers coming-in.
Though I’m happy to see people of other faiths take part in this Jewish tradition of placing notes in the Kotel, I’m also curious as to what exactly does it mean for them. After all, the Kotel is a holy place for Jews, and the tradition is, as mentioned, a Jewish tradition.
I emailed the Reverend and asked him to shed a little light on this issue for me. I asked him to give me a general idea of what is the attitudes of the different denominations towards the Kotel and the placing of the notes. Rev. Peters gave me a simple answer, but it might just be the best one. He told me to ask my Twitter followers. After all, it is you that send in your prayers – than you must know better than anyone else what does this act mean to you.
I’d love it if we could get a discussion going here in this blog post, so we could all share our feelings, opinions and knowledge. So please leave comments with your take on this issue (Note: due to technical reasons comments do not appear right away). Also, please retweet this post so others could share with us too. You can retweet simply by clicking the green “retweet” button on top.
I’m waiting for your comments.
Link to Rev. Bosco Peters’ blog post – here. His Twitter page is @Liturgy .
