Kotel: Rose

2003

“..When Jews pray, no matter where, in any synagogue or home, they face the direction of the Kotel HaMaaravi, the Western Wall, the last standing remnant of the holy Temple..”

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

45 cm.  17.72 in.

original width

60 cm.  23.62 in.

original media

Oil on Canvas

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