Is the Wall wailing?

Internet Jerusalem Post ^ | Jul. 3, 2002 | Etgar Lefkovits

[Phil V.]

Is the Wall wailing?
Etgar Lefkovits	Jul. 3, 2002
In a highly unnatural phenomenon, water has begun dripping from the midst of a stone in Jerusalem's Western Wall. The water leak, which was first noticed Saturday by worshippers at the Wall, continued yesterday for the fourth straight day, Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western Wall, said yesterday. On Sunday, Antiquities Authority director-general Shuka Dorfman and Jon Seligman, its Jerusalem regional archeologist, were rushed to the scene to examine the dripping, which has so far dampened a 10 by 40 centimeter section of the Wall. The drops of water are coming from a mid-level stone on the right edge of the men's side, near the division with the women's side. Antiquities Authority spokeswoman Osnat Gouez said yesterday that the authority officials who visited the site on Sunday decided to wait a couple days to see if the problem would continue before contacting officials from the Wakf, which is in charge of maintenance at the Temple Mount, just above the Wall. However, informed sources say that as the drip has persisted for at least 96 hours, Wakf officials have since been alerted to the drip, which may be coming from a hose or pipe they have installed. Fearing renewed Palestinian violence, police have barred non-Muslims, including archeologists, from entering the Temple Mount since then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the site in September 2000, leaving Judaism's holiest site without any archeological supervision. The 22-months since has been the longest the site has been closed to non-Muslims since the unification of Jerusalem in 1967. The drip has also proved to be of immense interest to Jewish mystics, who see it as a sign of upcoming redemption. Rabinovitch said that his priority is to stop the dripping, which he termed "highly unusual." Referring to a symbolic name given to the Wall the Wailing Wall by European observers because Jews for centuries came there to bewail the loss of the temples, Rabinovitch said: "Maybe the Wall is indeed crying because of the current situation in the country."

[Phil V.]

The drip has also proved to be of immense interest to Jewish mystics, who see it as a sign of upcoming redemption . . . Rabinovitch said that his priority is to stop the dripping . . .

NO REDEMPTION ON Rabinovitch's WATCH!

[cmsgop]

How do you say George Brazil in Hebrew ?

[Phil V.]

BEN?

[D-fendr]

And this makes no good sense:

Fearing renewed Palestinian violence, police have barred non-Muslims, including archeologists, from entering the Temple Mount since then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the site in September 2000, leaving Judaism's holiest site without any archeological supervision.

[STD]

I just took a look. It's not visable. If this was a God thing the place would be flooded.

[BenF]

WHAT?

[Alouette]

Zechariah 13:1:

"On that day there will be a spring opened up for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for cleansing and for purification."

Wait, it gets better:

Zechariah 14:12:

"This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have organized against Jerusalem: Each one's flesh will melt away while he is standing on his feet; each one's eyes will melt away in their sockets, and each ones tongue will melt away in their mouths. It shall be on that day that there will be a great panic of the Lord among them; each one will grab the hand of his fellow, and his hand will be raised up against the hand of his fellow."

What does that sound like, nukes or chem-bio WMD?

[Siobhan]

"Water from the rock" ping.

A 'very interesting' FYI bump, too.