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Get Your Tweeted Prayers Placed at the Western Wall

by Terrence O'Brien on July 27, 2009 at 07:16 AM

We haven't officially declared that Twitter has "jumped the shark" yet, but now we might be forced to.

Churches have been getting down with Twitter for months now -- the famous Trinity Church on Wall Street even used the micro-blogging service to tell the Passion story during Holy Week -- but zealous micro-blogger Alon Nil is now using the service to combine thousands of years of Jewish tradition with sheer laziness.

Nil has created an account on Twitter for the Kotel (the Hebrew name for the Western Wall in Jerusalem), to which Jews from around the world can tweet their prayers and have them printed out to be placed in the cracks of the wall. The practice of writing prayers and putting them in the wall is believed to bring the practitioner closer to God. Traditionally, the faithful would undertake a pilgrimage in person to the site, but, for years, services have been offered that allow those outside of Jerusalem to fax or e-mail their prayers.

So really, Nil's idea isn't all that new -- he's just making sure you edit your pleas to God judiciously to make it in under the 140-character limit. [From: Huffington Post]

Tags: judaism, kotel, religion, top, twitter, western wall, WesternWall

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