{"id":1754,"date":"2018-07-18T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/07\/18\/the-western-wall-a-poem"},"modified":"2019-01-01T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T08:18:51","slug":"the-western-wall-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/07\/18\/the-western-wall-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Western Wall: A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/poem\/11927821-The-Western-Wall-by-a-shacknofsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This poem<\/a> by\u00a0<span class=\"author_copyright\"><span class=\"copy_name\">Anthony Shacknofsky conveys the significance of the Western Wall through a poetic summary of the history of this sacred site, from the days of the Temple, through destruction and exile, to the Jewish return in modern times. Originally published in Poetica Magazine in 2014, this poet was shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AllPoetry.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Western Wall<\/h2>\n<p>Within the land of Israel,<br \/>\nThere lies an ancient wall.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s found in Old Jerusalem,<br \/>\nBeyond her gates so tall.<\/p>\n<p>That wall was once a temple,<br \/>\nBuilt up by Hebrew hands.<br \/>\nA shrine where they could worship,<br \/>\nThe Lord in the Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p>Then Rome attacked Jerusalem,<br \/>\nWith fire, spear and sword.<br \/>\nThey razed with pagan fervour,<br \/>\nThe City of The Lord.<\/p>\n<p>They sacked the holy temple,<br \/>\nExulting in its fall,<br \/>\nAnd left behind a remnant,<br \/>\nThe sacred Wailing Wall.<\/p>\n<p>Two thousand years of waiting,<br \/>\nWere spent in silent prayer,<br \/>\nThat all future generations,<br \/>\nWould be free to worship there.<\/p>\n<p>Rejoice ye sons of Israel,<br \/>\nThe Lord has heard our call.<br \/>\nReturn to Old Jerusalem,<br \/>\nAnd worship at the Wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem by\u00a0Anthony Shacknofsky conveys the significance of the Western Wall through a poetic summary of the history of this sacred site, from the days of the Temple, through destruction and exile, to the Jewish return in modern times. Originally published in Poetica Magazine in 2014, this poet was shared on AllPoetry.com. The Western Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2554,236],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/11811\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}