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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, national
communion with the memory of Israel's former glory and the hope for its
restoration, on the other.
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