Slips of paper containing prayers in the cracks of the Western Wall (Ha-Kotel Ha-Ma'aravi) in Jerusalem. The Wall is the holiest of Jewish sites, sacred because it is a remnant of the Herodian retaining wall that once enclosed and supported the Second Temple. It has also been called the 'Wailing Wall'

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