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Only in Israel: E-mailing G-d@Gmail.com

Posted on September 6, 2007 • By Rebecca Markowitz
Category: Miscellaneous Leave a Comment

So far, it’s only been faxes, letters, and personal deliveries at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. But, in tech savvy Israel, God’s Gmail account seems to be on the horizon. According to Ynet, the Kotel (Western Wall) has a personal assistant, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who attends to all the Kotel’s needs from delivering faxed or sent prayer notes to the Kotel, to clearing out the prayer notes to make room for new ones.

For many, these prayer notes are an important way of communicating with God. But how is there always room for mine? Do these Kotel assistants ever read my notes?

Here’s what Ynet News has to say:

Rabinowitz and a dozen workers sweep the wall with wooden sticks in order to reach up high to snare the notes closest to the heavens.

They never read them and have never counted the number of scripted prayers, but in each collection there are enough to fill about 100 shopping bags, each with thousands of notes, Rabinowitz said.

The rabbi’s office, which manages the site, estimates that more than 5 million people visited the Western Wall in 2006. Israel’s Tourism Ministry said that about 1.5 million of them were foreign tourists.

Click here to see some real-time Kotel action.