Kotel: The Wall

2003

“For over two thousand years, since the destruction of the Holy Temple, the Kotel HaMaaravi, Western Wall, had been the Jewish focal point for prayer..”

Chaim Cohen

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 religious—and in the 20th century also national—communion with the memory of Israel's former glory and the hope for its restoration, on the other.

original height

90 cm.  35.43 in.

original width

120 cm.  47.24 in.

original media

Oil on Canvas

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