Kotel With Diagonal

2002 – 2003

“..Holiness, kedushah, can be found in time (Shabbat and Festivals), in space (the Bet HaMikdash &‘ The Temple in Jerusalem), in objects (a Sefer Torah), and in people (Kohanim). Among the holiest places in Jewish tradition are the Kotel, the Western Wall of Temple Mount, where King Solomon and others following him built the first, and later, the second Temple..”

Dov Peretz Elkins

The Kotel, the Western Wall, is a section of the western supporting wall of the Temple Mount which has remained intact since the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.). It became the most hallowed spot in Jewish religious and national consciousness and tradition by virtue of its proximity to the Western Wall, of the Holy of Holies in the Temple, from which, according to numerous sources, the Divine Presence never departed. It became a center for mourning over the destruction of the Temple and Israel's exile, on the one hand, and of religiousF;national communion with the memory of Israel's former glory and the hope for its restoration, on the other.

original height

22.5 cm.  8.86 in.

original width

31 cm.  12.2 in.

original media

Oil on Board

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