Armed with wooden poles, Kosel employees yesterday removed millions of kvitlach – handwritten notes, faxes and email printouts – from between the ancient stones of the Kosel. The Western Wall Heritage Foundation gives the Kosel such a face-lift twice a year – before the Pesach and ahead of Rosh Hashanah.
The kvitlach will be placed in a repository in accordance with halacha, with the laborers – working under the supervision of Kosel rov Rav Shmuel Rabinovich – taking care to not read their content.
Engineers also regularly conduct a test to determine the stability of the stones so that none are in the risk of falling on the mispalelim below.
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}
what does kvittlach have to do with chometz
Either way, Hashem has a “back-up copy” of every kvitel up there….
to #1 Nothing to do with chometz. This is just the time when they take out the notes, so that there can be room for more.
I play kvitlach on Chanika.