Thousands of letters sent to God were placed between the stones of the Western Wall.
In an annual ceremony held Tuesday, the letters from around the world were delivered to the wall. The rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, prayed that the senders’ prayers would be answered.
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