Jerusalem, Israel (Wailing Wall)

🇮🇱-2 The fastest way to get to the #WesternWall is to enter from the #DungGate, but I prefer to enter from the #DamascusGate. You can slowly walk along the Arab market in the Muslim quarter to the Western Wall in the Jewish quarter, and then feel the soul contained in different areas. The entire #Jerusalem Old City is actually not very large, with a circumference of about 5 kilometers. It contains five main areas: Muslim, Christian, Armenian, Jewish and Temple Mount. According to the Hebrew Bible, Solomon's Temple (the First Temple) was built on the Temple Mount in the 10th century BC and was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 586 BC; the Second Temple was completed in 516 BC. In 19 BC, King Herod the Great began a large-scale reconstruction of the Temple Mount. In addition to rebuilding and expanding the First Temple, he also extended the base to increase its size several times. Today's Western Wall is part of the retaining wall of the base. Unfortunately, the Second Temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire during the First Jewish-Roman War in 70 AD.
 Therefore the Western Wall, also known as the #WailingWall. Because after the temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the remaining Jews were not allowed to enter Jerusalem. It was not until the Byzantine period that the Jewish people were allowed to enter the city on the day of the destruction of the temple each year. They came to the location of the temple, but the temple was no longer there. Only this wall was left, so they could only pray and cry facing the wall. After that, the Jews were driven out and began to wander around until #Israel took control of the Western Wall after the third Middle East war in 1967. This was the first time in nearly two thousand years that the Jews took control of the Western Wall again. In fact, the Western Wall is not very long. The section where people pray is about 57 meters long. Every crevice of this 57-meter-long wall is filled with small notes, which are filled with what people want to say to God and all their thoughts about the lost and recovered homeland. I also walked along the edge of the Western Wall, touching every mark on the stone, and followed the Jewish way of prayer, leaning my forehead against the wall. I am not a religious person, but I hope to talk to God everywhere in the world in the most intimate way possible, and at the edge of the Western Wall, I feel peace of mind. At the same time, I can also slightly appreciate the love for my homeland after thousands of years of wandering.