After a large stone fell from the Kosel on Monday, an Israeli archaeologist declared the site’s entire plaza a “danger zone.” Other stones “could immediately fall” and hurt people, Zachi Dvira, who is completing a Ph.D. on the archaeology of the Har Habayis, told The Times of Israel, JTA reports.
The boulder that fell Monday morning at one of the sight’s areas designated for “egalitarian mixed prayer” weighed about 220 pounds. It missed all onlookers, but landed close to 79-year-old Daniella Goldberg.
Israel “doesn’t do proper preservation [of the site] because of politics,” Dvira said, adding that he believes visitors should stand a few feet back from the Kosel in all of its sections for safety reasons. “It’s a matter of life or death,” he said.
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}
“Stand back”
“Matter of life and death”
Is he talking about going up to har habayis?
For thousands of years the wall has stood and we have a mesorah that the Kosel will never be destroyed, because the Shechina is in the West. This is also hinted in the the Medrash on Shir Hashirim, “Hine ze omed achar Kosleinu”.
Indeed, nothing changed in the original Kosel. The stone that fell was from the small ones which was added above by Sir Moses Montefiore.
then how did the stones which these replaced fall years backs? some seichal!
did the shechinah destroy the Roman legions who burnt the beis hamikdosh?
Liberal! That’s how I interpret him. There has to be a reason why it only happened by the egalitarian area! Maybe there there is a G-d who runs this world Mr Zachi Zweig!
Making room for the Third Temple soon in our days
Amen!