Alon Nir, an Israeli student has set up a Twitter account to help deliver your prayers to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, also known as The Kotel – Judaism’s holiest prayer site.
Interestingly, he is not accepting prayers through post or Email but the popular micro-blogging site, Twitter.
For those who are not familiar with the Western Wall, the site has provided a short explanation of the practice:
“For hundreds of years people of the Jewish faith have been placing notes between the Western Wall’s stones, notes containing their wishes and prayers.
People of other faiths too tend to practice this tradition when they visit the holy city Jerusalem. It is believed by many that the wall serves as a direct channel to the Almighty.”
What Alon does is to print your tweeted prayer, cut it into a small note and place it in between the stones of The Kotel. He documents every trip he made to The Kotel on his website. No need to worry that your tweet was not delivered!
In October, he received over 3000 tweets that contained the faith of people from all over the world. Alon made The Kotel accessible to everyone living outside Israel who believe in this practice. Who would have thought that Twitter could be used for such purpose? What started out as a hobby is now a big success in terms of response.
He is now looking for sponsors so that he can get some help with the overwhelming number of tweets received everyday.
He is “determined to not lose even one prayer.”
If you got a prayer to tweet, you can be sure that it would not be lost. So go on and follow @TheKotel today!
