Kotel: Frottage

2004

“..And it shall come to pass, in the last days, that the mountain of the L-rd's house shall be established at the top of the all the mountains, and shall be exalted above all the hills; and all of the nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the L-rd, and to the house of the G-d of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we shall walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of G-d from Jerusalem..”

Isaiah 2:2?3

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

24 cm.  9.45 in.

original width

35 cm.  13.78 in.

original media

Oil On Board

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