Is The Wailing Wall Really A Remnant Of The Ancient Jewish Temple Or Is It Something Else?

Question

Jesus said of the Temple that not one stone would be left upon another.So how can the Wall actually be a part of the temple?Nothing should remain of the Temple.I read once that the Wall is actually part of the Roman fortress Antonia.Have the Jews been praying at a Roman fort all these years?What is the truth of the matter?

Answer 1

"The Bible" is not accepted by historians as a reliable source of historical data. Too much of the information has been disproven by archeology. There is no evidence whatsoever that the wailing wall is in fact a remnant of Herod's temple or indeed anything other than a rampart. No historian has been able to pinpoint just when or why jews developed this idea,other than that it does not emerge until fairly recent times; i.e. within the last four hundred years or so. It appears to have originated with religious pilgrimages by Russian jews,a conspicuously superstitious lot.

Answer 2

It is actually part of an ancient retaining wall. Israelis want to believe a remnant of their Temple remains, but alas; that is not the case.

Answer 3

the actual temple that stood on temple mount in the time of jesus was destroyed by the romans in the year 70.

the western wall, as well as the other walls surrounding temple mounts are remnants of the hasmonean and herodian retaining wall that created the "esplanade", or flat surface on which the temple complex was built.

the antonia fortress was a fortification on the western side of the northern wall of temple mount, in a place where the old hasmonean "hakra" fortress used to stand.

jewish tradition states that after the temple was destroyed, god's presence inhabited the western wall which supposedly was built with money raised by the poor people of the nation.

the western wall is also the closest place to the actual location of the temple in which jews were allowed to pray in the last 800 years and so has come to represent the temple itself and the yearning for its reconstruction one day.

Answer 4

In my opinion anything coming from another time should be preserved with love and care.

It don't matter if it's arabian or jewish.

It's part of our history as humans.

I don't care if the jews go there and do jewish rituals. There's nothing bad or wrong about that.

The bad thing is what them jews are doing to all of their brothers the Palestinians.

Only communists destroyed relics of our history in the past and that's why I hate them for doing that.

Answer 5

Just another proof that the Lord allowed it to stand because of His great lovingkindness or as we know it grace

Answer 6

The wailing wall is the remains of a Roman wall surrounded Jerusalem and ended with Fortress Antonia built on the mount being a strategic location viewing the whole the city at that time.

The fortress  was named after Mark Antony .

The wall was built on the first century AD and  has nothing to do with the Jews or the Jewish history in  Jerusalem during the 80 years era of King David.

I do not understand why do the they  wail at it?

Answer 7

It is Really A Remnant Of The Ancient Jewish Temple.

Sincerely,

Ms. Miche ; })

Answer 8

The person above me has no idea what he's talking about.

According to the Bible, Solomon's Temple was built atop the Temple Mount in the 10th century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Second Temple was built in 516 BCE.

In around 19 BCE Herod the Great began a massive expansion project on the Temple Mount. He artificially expanded the area which resulted in an enlarged platform. Today's Western Wall--also known as the Wailing Wall, or the Kotel--formed part of the retaining perimeter wall of this platform.  Thus, it is not a formal part of the Second Temple but rather a wall around the temple.  It has nothing to do with a fortress.

Herod's Temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire, along with the rest of Jerusalem, in 70 CE during the First Jewish-Roman War. However, the Western Wall was spared.

Answer 9

Consider why the Temple was destroyed by Rome.  Rather Roman soldiers whose meager pay was to be supplemented by the booty they could carry away.

Titus did not want the temple hurt or raided to preserve the golden artifacts.  His soldiers wouldn't obey and set the interior on fire.  The fire burned so hot that all the gold melted and went into the cracks between the stones.

Hence as Jesus prophesied, no stone was left un turned.

My point being the walls and and out side structures would not have been overturned to find gold, so left standing.  No destruction of the Mount itself.

All that came later as the wall was owned and used by various peoples throughout the ages.

Answer 10

das wrong! hate your name cause it sounds very Hitler-ish.

It's a retaining wall.

Answer 11

The wailing wall is a piece of the retaining wall for the foundation of Harrods temple where GOD Himself lived. The reason it is so important is that is as close you can get to the Holy of Holies without going on to the dome of the rock area

Answer 12

first of all, it's the western wall, not the wailing wall.

secondly, jesus made lots of future pronouncements that didn't come true.

the wall is real, proven scientifically and historically. it was the outer wall of the second temple, detroyed by the Romans in the year 70.

Answer 13

The First Temple or Solomon's Temple was built in the 10th century BC. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC, the Second Temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in AD 70 as a result of the First Jewish-Roman War. Each Temple stood for a period of about four centuries.

When the legions of Titus destroyed the Temple, only a part of an outer court-yard "western wall" remained standing. Jewish texts teach that Titus left it as a bitter reminder to the Jews that Rome had vanquished Judea. The Jews, however, attributed it to a promise made by God that some part of the holy Temple would be left standing as a sign of God's unbroken bond with the Jewish people in spite of the catastrophes which had befallen them.

Answer 14

It's the remnant of the Second Temple built after the end of Babylonian Captivity. By the way, I don't think Jesus' statement was about the Second Temple physically.