Rosh Chodesh Av... Commemorate at Tel Shiloh

Gd willing we'll have our monthly Women's Rosh Chodesh Prayers at Ancient Tel Shiloh... Join us if you can.

Tel Shiloh can be reached by public transportation besides by car. Take a look at the map, and you'll see that Shiloh is in the center of the country. 

There's lots to do in Tel Shiloh, not just pray. Remember that the Ancient Mishkan Tabernacle was here in Shiloh for almost four hundred years before King David made Jerusalem our Capitol and King Solomon built the First Holy Temple. For more information +972 2-578-9111 and visit@telshilo.org.il.

Was In Old City, but Didn't Doven at Kotel

I may have mentioned this before. I'm not a great fan of the Kotel, the Western Wall.

Contrary to popular misconception, it's not a remaining wall of the Holy Temple, sic, there were two plus, nor is it "the  holiest spot in the world for Jews.

The Kotel is the remains of a very sturdy retaining wall of the Temple Mount, which is where the Holy Temples had stood before destroyed by anti-Jewish invaders.

I think of the Kotel as an old outdoor synagogue, which conveniently has an Ezrat Nashim, women's section. The holiness is derived more from the fact that it has been a place of Jewish Prayer for so long. One doesn't need to ritually purify oneself before going to pray there, which is the preferred requirement for entering Har Habayit, the Temple Mount.

What do you think about it?