I just returned home from Jerusalem, where I davened for all of you at the Kotel. Following last week's post about the Mufti's panic and the water seepage on the Temple Mount, I've been receiving a lot of mail from skeptics. If anyone doesn't want to believe in Moshiach and Geula, that's their free choice. But for the benefit of my readers all over the world, I took the following pictures, so you can judge for yourself:
Photo 1: The seepage, the mud stains, and the moss (Taken by Lazer, Western Wall in Jerusalem, July 3, 2005)
The "Kotel" faces the sun-baked west. You can easily fry an egg on Jerusalem stones with a Western exposure, especially in July. Here, there's zero rainfall from the beginning of March until the beginning of October. Yet, despite the hot sun, the drought, and the arid Judean desert climate, look at the mud and moisture marks on both sides of the cracks, and the moss (who ever heard of moss growing on a western exposure?) growing from the bottom. This particular crack is about 15 feet high, and on the men's side about 20 feet left of the mechitza (partition that separates the women's side).
Photo 2: The protruding stone, more mud stains, and the moisture on the stoneface (Taken by Lazer, Western Wall in Jerusalem, July 3, 2005)
Notice the mud stains on the bottom of the protruding stone at the top left side of the photo. Also, notice the moisture on the face of the stone beneath the protrusion. I'm sure that Hashem sent this friendly little pigeon to show me where the water seepage is - the pigeon enjoys a cool, moist resting place, and that's exactly what he's found. So does the lush green caper bush that's growing out of the wall. Clearly, the capers have a good source of moisture to sustain them.
As mentioned in the previous post on this subject, by Islamic tradition, if the Gihon spring begins to rise on the Temple Mount, it signifies the beginning of Jewish redemption; if Yisrael must rise, then Yishmael must fall. By our own tradition, the moisture at the Western Wall of the Holy Temple indicates the impending redemption of the people and land of Israel, the rebuilding of the Temple and the coming of Moshiach ben David, speedily and in our time, amen.
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