It is the wall that faces westward and it is the closest in proximity to the site of the holy of holies the most sacred location in the temple for the jewish people.
The western wall is not the tempal mount.
The holiest place in judaismis the temple mountwhere the second templestood until it was destroyed by the romansin 70 c e.
They should turn and pray toward the direction of what is behind the wall.
We pray at the western wall because in the world we live in today sadly we are not allowed to pray beyond that point.
Mount moriah the temple mount.
Mistakenly the western wallis generally thought to be the holiest site but prayers at this location are a relatively recent phenomenon which were prompted ironically by a muslim conqueror.
The western wall s holiness in judaism is a result of its proximity to the temple mount.
The wall surrounds the holiest site.
There is not a single stone with any relation at all to the history of the hebrews asked if jews.
But we must remember that the western wall is not the holiest site.
This olivet discourse deception study shows that the temple was totally destroyed with not one stone standing on another just as messiah proclaimed.
The western wall is one of the four supporting walls of the temple mount that remained intact after the destruction of the second beit hamikdash the second temple.
Because of the temple mount entry restrictions the wall is the holiest place where jews are permitted to pray though the foundation stone the most sacred site in the jewish faith lies behind it.
We see a lot of news about the jews praying at the wailing wall and the jews needing to remove the dome of the rock shrine on the temple mount so that they can rebuild their temple.