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Divine mystery of leaking water at Wailing Wall
By Patrick Bishop
(Filed: 04/07/2002)
Sages across the Holy Land were yesterday trying
to fathom the significance of a mysterious damp patch that has appeared on
Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.
Worshippers noticed water trickling from between the huge blocks of stone on
Saturday. But before technicians could diagnose the problem, the area's host of
mystics and holy men were already at work trying to divine the water's inner
message. Was the Wailing Wall now weeping? And if so, what did it mean?
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who presides over the wall, told the Jerusalem Post that
the dripping was "highly unusual" and suggested that "maybe the wall is indeed
crying because of the current situation in the country".
Rabbi Menachem Fromann went further. "There is a prophecy that everybody
knows, that states that when water comes through the stones of the wall it presages
the advent of the Messiah," he said.
"Perhaps God is opening up a path for peace and people will feel this and move
towards it."
The towering slabs of stone known to Jews as the Western Wall are revered as the
last remains of the temple built by Herod the Great in 20BC and destroyed by the
Romans in AD70.
A visit by Ariel Sharon in September 2000 to the enclosure above the wall - known
as the Temple Mount to Jews and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary - marked the
start of the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Despite speculation as to the leak's deeper meaning, the truth seems more prosaic.
"Instead of looking for a spiritual explanation it would be better to ask the Israeli
water authority," said Rabbi Levi Lau, of the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
23 June 2002: Israelis tighten grip on West Bank cities
30 July 2001: Wailing Wall a battleground again
29 September 2000: Riot police clash with protesters at holy shrine
27 March 2000: New era heralded as Pope posts prayer in the Wailing Wall
External links
Water leak continues at the Western Wall [3 Jul '02] - Jerusalem Post
Live Western [Wailing] Wall camera - Aish
� Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2002.
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