The utensil in this photograph was found whole in an archaeological excavation under the pavement of the Western Wall plaza, conducted in conjunction with the Israel Antiquities Authority Educational centers. The excavation is focused now on the later layers from the 18th – 20th centuries CE – the Ottoman and British Mandate periods and during the Jordanian rule of the Old City.
You Haven’t Missed It: The Secret of Tu B’Av and Yom Kippur
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites At the end of Tractate Ta’anit in the Mishnah, our Sages make a surprising
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