Kotel: White Plaza

2002 – 2003

“..If there is anything else you want to say to God, do so now, before you leave the Kotel.. Remember that you can always come back here in your imagination, and speak to God any time you want, just by closing your eyes and coming to the Kotel in your mind..”

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

27 cm.  10.63 in.

original width

42 cm.  16.54 in.

original media

Oil on Board

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