A Stone Speaks- The Voice of the Kotel
Table of Contents The complete TOC is available upon request
Preface
A Flood of Images
Chapter 1
The Wall and I
We, Stones of the Kotel, Celebrate Life
Chapter 2
Building & Destruction
Romans. Christians, and Muslims
Chapter 3
Jerusalem and the Wall
Place of Jewish Worship
The All is like a Magnet
Stones with Feelings
Chapter 4
The Noise That Time Makes
Time Line – Chronology
prior to 1025 B.C.E.
from year 1025 B.C.E.
year 19 B.C.E.
Chapter 5
Bad News/ Good News
A Bit of History
Early Period: Prior to 1025 BCE
Erecting the Wall
Chapter 6
How I Became Part of the Wall
Transporting The Stones
Erecting the Wall
Statistics
Mind Boggling
Chapter 7
From year 04 B.C.E.
-King Herod Dies
To years 1828-1908 C.E.-
Chapter 8
End of the Ottoman Empire
The League of Nations and the British Mandate
1918 -Weizmann and the Balfour declaration
Under the British Mandate (1922-1948)
Chapter 9
The Jewish Connection to the Temple Mount
The Controversy Over the Western Wall During Mandate Period
Chapter 10
Arab Violence -1929 Riots
The Decade Following the 1929 Arab Riots
1939- White Paper Restricts Immigration of Jews to Palestine
1947- Partitioning Proposed
Chapter 11
1948 A Decisive Year
1949- Baruch HaShem, We Survived
Nineteen Years of Jordanian Rule
1956- Suez Canal Closed to Israeli Shipping
1957- HaGomel
Chapter 12
From 1960-1961- Adolf Eichmann Captured
Year 1967 -The Six Day Phenomenon
Euphoria From Heaven
Chapter 13
Search for History and Heritage
I Envy You
The Guy With the Camera
Chapter 14
Customs, Segula and Sanctity of the Wall
Past Customs, no longer practiced
Chapter 15
Aish HaTorah Institutions
Jewish Quarter
The Old City Walls And Its Entrance Gates
Chapter 16
SPECIAL EVENTS
Kabbalat Shabbat
Yom Yerushalayim at the Kotel – May 22, 2009
Birkat Hachama
The Shlosha Regalim (Three Pilgrimage Festivals)
Chapter 17
FAST DAYS
TISHA B’AV (9th of Av)
Kol Nidrei at the Kotel
Chapter 18
Women at the Kotel
Chapter 19
My Special “Customers”
Chapter 20
Outlawing Sacred Rituals at the Kotel
Chapter 21
Security
Sanctity
Chapter 22
Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount
Chapter 23
Stories Prior to 1930
Stories After 1967
A Paratrooper's Story by Dr. Moshe Amirav
APPENDIX I- Photos
APPENDIX II – NOTABLE VISITORS
APPENDIX III -* Sources on the Kotel - Selections