The Jerusalem Post report:
More than 70,000 worshipers crowded into the Western Wall plaza on Sunday morning for the Blessing of the Priests, which takes place twice a year, on the Chol Hamoed days of Sukkos and Pesach.
Joining the worshipers was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, police chief Yochanan Danino, and the Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinovitz.
According to the Western Wall Heritage Fund, the tradition of mass blessings during the two pilgrimage holidays was started by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gefner in 1970, who drew inspiration from the traditional saying that the Messiah will come if 300 kohanim recite the blessings together.
The holiday season is one of the busiest for the Western Wall. The Western Wall counted more than one million visits for slichos prayers before Yom Kippur, including 35,000 soldiers, who also visited the Western Wall tunnels.
Photos by Meir Alfasi
amazing!
I WAS THERE THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL I DIDN’T REALISED HOW MANY PEOPLE WE WERE !!!! WOWWWW
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This is beautiful, hopefully I will be there next year
there is nothing like this anywhere in the world.
only the holy land.
nice:) mi kamcho yisrel!??
cant wait for simchas beis with the bhmk!
bimehera byameinu amen!
wooow
WE are deff ready for the bais Hamikdash!!!