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The world of Artistic Expression has tried to depict this Epic Event.

I will post a few of these today for your edification and enjoyment.

This one is a 19th century Oil painting by David Roberts:

In my opinion, It really captures the enormity of the event.

This one is from earlier:

Very Formal and Academic, not to my taste.

And then there is this:

And this:

Although this is an event that one would assume could NEVER Happen AGAIN in Human History, it DID happen Again in 1948. What a MIGHTY GOD WE SERVE!

We are approaching one of the Shlosha Regalim (three festivals) when in Temple days Jews were required to make a pilgrimmage to Jerusalem:

"The Three Pilgrimage Festivals, known as the Shlosha Regalim are three major festivals in Judaism — Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Weeks), and Sukkot (Tents or Booths) — when the Israelites living in ancient Israel and Judea would make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as commanded by the Torah. In Jerusalem, they would participate in festivities and ritual worship in conjunction with the services of the kohanim ("priests") at the Temple in Jerusalem."

"After the destruction of the Temple, the actual pilgrimage is no longer obligatory upon Jews, and no longer takes place on a national scale. During synagogue services the related passages describing the holiday being observed are read aloud from a Torah scroll on the Bimah (platform) used at the center of the synagogue services. During the Jewish holidays in modern-day Israel, many Jews living in or near Jerusalem make an effort to attend prayer services at the Western Wall "emulating" the ancient "pilgrimages" in some small fashion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalosh_regalim

also

"Rabbi Tendler also explained that some of the stones used by Arabs in paving the plaza that today also serves the Al Aksa Mosque were taken from Jewish homes.

Bending down, he gently brushed away the dirt from one of the blocks, revealing the cavity wherein once nestled the holy scroll of a mezuzah -- the Jewish prayers that are written on special parchment and posted on the entryway to each room in every Jewish home in accordance with the Torah commandment to "post them on the doorposts of your house and upon your gates, that ye shall remember and do all My commandments and be holy unto your G-d."

Gesturing toward the bare, elongated hole, Rabbi Tendler told the group, "You see? There once was a mezuzah here. This was taken from a Jewish home. And they used it to pave the road."

Rabbi Tendler contends that his father-in-law, the famous Halachic-decisor Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, was well aware of his custom to go up on the mount and never dissuaded Tendler from doing so. A copy of a responsa issued by Rabbi Feinstein affirming the halachic right of Jews to go up the the Mount can be found on the Temple Institute site. More video teachings about the Temple Mount can be found here.

http://www.vosizneias.com/29171/2009/03/20/jerusalem-rabbi-tendler-ascends-har-habayit-video/