Western Wall Visit: Bar Mitzvah, Prayers, and Traditions

The Western Wall:  A Bar Mitzvah boy celebrates his coming of age.

### The Western Wall: A Bar Mitzvah and Prayers
* 🗺️ The video begins at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, on a **Mitzvah day**.
* 🕍  Visitors are encouraged to wear a yarmulke if they don't have a hat.
* 🎉 A **Bar Mitzvah** ceremony is shown, with women throwing sweets at the celebrant.
* 📖 A man reads from a hand-written Torah scroll, a significant event in Judaism.
* ✝️  **Christians** are seen praying at the Western Wall, highlighting its significance to multiple faiths.
* 📜  The video shows the tradition of placing **prayer notes** between the stones of the wall.
* 🧱 Seven stones from the bottom to the top of the wall date back to **King Herod's** time.
* 🙏 The video concludes with the placement of prayer notes, emphasizing the wall's role as a place of prayer and faith for many.

We're at the Western Wall, actually it's a small part of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, and we are entering it.

It's Thursday, which is a mitzvah day. Then, before we put the notes between the stones, we will go in.

You can see the kippot. If you don't have a hat, please take a yarmulke and put

it on. There's no wind, so it won't fly away. Don't worry. Yeah, yeah, that's

okay. But if you want to take a picture with the yarmulke, you need the yarmulke. Let's go see one of the

parades. The ladies will throw some sweets at the children, and you will see me running and eating them. You can do

that too. Yeah, they are reading from the Bible. Amen. Let's go there. Let's go there.

[Music] Yes. Inside that beautiful box is the Torah. Oh, you see, he's already a man; he

is already finished reading it. It's a Bible scroll that was written by hand by a scribe.

You see that finial on the head, see the box on the head? Remember we talked about it? And he's now going to read from the Bible.

Can we take a picture? Of course. I'm taking a video of it, then of course you can take a picture of it. And so, as he

leaves, people celebrate him. Uh, sorry. Yeah, yeah. When he leaves, he will be a man, and before that,

the women would throw some sweets at him. Uh, and you can see that the women are hiding in the way.

Mr. Trump was praying there. All right, then, family, let's go into the air-conditioned part. The women

cannot use it. Let me remind you that seven stones, from bottom to top, are from the time of King

Herod, but let's go to the air conditioning part because this is a touristic area and that is not

[Music] What you see there are three evangelists... uh... Christians praying three times a

day. This is the second prayer of the day. You must have ten men to [Music] pray. Lady, call you

[Music] another 12 M of the West. I will talk about later. Just see it [Music]

Let's go out and let's put a note between the West and [Music] [Music]

Go and see it and then go out to put a note. Go and put the... All right. All right. Oh, permit for GU...

[Music] Reading from the Bible? Yes, yes. No, no, no, no, no. What they're reading is from... it's a

it's a book of prayer. The children read from the Bible, of course. The Old Testament; there the New Testament is not

existent in Judaism. Then all right, put the notes. Put the notes. Go again. Go. All right, I will

follow you. I will follow you. Go. No, no, no. Upside... yeah. Choose a place. Choose a place. Remember, they've got... uh... don't try

to hide it; they're going to bury it later on at the Western Wall. Wait, wait, wait. He's taking a picture of him. As I

believe it's a Bar Mitzvah guy. Is it true? Bar Mitzvah?  Yes, he's a

man now; he's not a child anymore. All right, put your note. Put your note.

The story of the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, Israel

The Holy Land, by Zahi Shaked

Entering the Western Wall and initial observations

Arrival at a section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Visitors are encouraged to wear yarmulkes.

Observation of a parade with sweets being thrown.

Description of the Torah scroll and its reading.

People celebrate the reader after the reading.

Women throw sweets at the Bar Mitzvah boy.

Mention of Mr. Trump praying at the wall.

Architectural details and air-conditioned area

Moving to the air-conditioned section (women's access restricted).

Seven bottom stones date back to King Herod's time.

Observation of Christians praying three times a day.

A minimum of ten men are required for prayer.

Instructions to insert notes into the wall.

Further instructions and guidance on placing notes.

Clarification on what is being read (prayer book, not Bible).

Advice on choosing a place for the note; notes are later buried.

Concluding remarks on the Bar Mitzvah and note placement

Confirmation of a Bar Mitzvah taking place.