“If a nation and a country have a soul – then Jerusalem is their soul,” said Ben Gurion. He imagined the many pilgrims making their way up to Jerusalem and to the Kotel and understood the longing, the joy, and the desire to touch the stones of the Kotel and pray near them.
Photo: Ben Gurion with Teddy Kollek (former mayor of Jerusalem) at the Western Wall, courtesy of Rabbi Shechter’s family
“Go, Eat with Joy” – Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur 5787 Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites We stand at the threshold of the holiest day in the
6 Tishrei 5787
September 17, 2026
