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It Is No Secret
Years ago, when I was first in Jerusalem, I put a note in the Western Wall.
“Did you pray at the Wall?” my Israeli cousins asked me, with their native-born, knowing irony.
“Of course,” I rejoined. “Do you think I’m going to spend hundreds of dollars on an El Al ticket and not pray at the Wall?”
Pilgrims and tourists put private notes in the crevices of the Herodian stonework (of the outermost retaining wall of the Second Temple), with the petitions of their inmost hearts. What was written on mine?
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University…
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