The holiest site in Judaism, the Wall is the largest section of the Second Temple that is still standing following the Temple's destruction by the Roman Legion in 70 C.E.
("Ha-Kotel" (the Wall)). Remaining part of the retaining wall built late in the 1st cent. BCE around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (i.e., not part of the Temple itself, but relating to the ground upon which the Temple was constructed). Early references may have been to the actual Western Wall of the Temple itself, the end where the holy of holies was situated. ( Jacobs, Louis, THE JEWISH RELIGION, p. 585.)
(Wailing Wall) Hebrew ha-kotel ha-ma'aravi, "the Western Wall," or simply ha-kotel, "the Wall" -- a high wall in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount believed to be part of the western section of the wall surrounding Solomon's Temple (some believe it to be Herod's Temple), where Jews have traditionally gathered for prayer. Jerome described Jews on the Mount of Olives in the fourth century A.D. wailing and lamenting as they looked upon the ruins of the Temple on the ninth day of the Hebrew month Av, a day of mourning for the Temple. The traditional Arabic term for the wall is El-Mabka, "the Place of Weeping." The name "Wailing Wall" is predominantly a European term introduced by the British after their conquest of Jerusalem from the Turks in 1917. Jews traditionally gathered here on Fridays to mourn, however, after the Six-Day War in 1967 and the reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, many have considered this to be a place of celebration.
Also know as the "Wailing Wall". This is the holiest place in the world to a Jewish person. The Western Wall is part of the retaining wall that Herod the Great built in order to expand the Temple Mount. When the Old City of Jerusalem was captured during the Six Day War, Jews were able to worship here freely for the first time since 135 A.D. when the Roman Emperor Hadrian expelled all Jews from Judea.
Remnant of Herod's remaining wall around the Temple Mount. Holy place of the Jewish religion.
(KOH-tel ma-'a-rah-VEE) n. Western Wall; Kotel. “Wailing Wall”; Remnant of the western wall of the Temple in Jerusalem. Part of the wall enclosing Herod's Temple is still standing in the old section of Jerusalem. This part of the wall has been regarded as sacred ever since the Talmudic period and has served as a place of pilgrimage for Jews from all parts of the world.
a portion of the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount, regarded by the Jewish people as a holy place owing to its proximity to the site of the Holy of Holies on the platform above it.
The remaining portion of the old temple on the temple mount, also called the 'wailing wall.'
The western retaining wall of Temple Mount in Jerusalem, built by Herod the Great (37–4 BCE). Because it was for centuries one of the few remaining visible vestiges of the Jewish Temple, it was and is a revered center for Jewish pilgrimage.
The Western Wall (Hebrew: הכותל המערבי, translit.: HaKotel HaMa'aravi), or simply The Kotel, is a retaining wall in Jerusalem that dates from the time of the Jewish Second Temple (515 BCE - 70 CE). It is sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall , referring to Jews mourning the destruction of the Temple, but this name is becoming less common. The Western Wall is part of the larger religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem called Har ha-Bayit (the Temple Mount) to Jews and Christians, or Al-Haram al-Qudsi al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) to Muslims.