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- Aug 6, 2015
Day 4: Why Does Jerusalem Make Us Cry?
Brett Fishberg in Israel for the first time, commented on our arrival in Jerusalem yesterday: “I was surprised, I just didn’t think I’d get this emotional”. Why does coming to Jerusalem for the first time, and specifically praying at the Western Wall evoke such powerful feelings and emotions? There is of course no one reason, and the experience is always a unique and personal one. For some the emotion comes from the knowledge that one is standing in the closest proximity to w