Israel Post chief: It is an honor and privilege to deliver these letters to God from faithful people all over the world
“Dear God, please bring an end to Corona, and have my parents buy me a new iPhone and a JBL speaker,” writes Aron Mecklen, a young boy from Germany.
Amber from Texas thanks God, and sends greetings to her dead spouse Philip, and other deceased friends: “Thank you for caring for my deceased family and friends,” she writes. “To my dear Philip, we got the best turkey for the holiday. I have no one to quarrel with over the turkey breast! How much you loved the white meat.”
These letters and hundreds of others were placed this week in the Western Wall, in a ceremony performed by the Israel Postal Service with the Rabbi of the Western Wall on the eve of Rosh Hashanah and the biblical holidays that fall during the Jewish month of Tishrei.
Israel Postal Service CEO Danny Goldstein and Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Places, Rabbi Rabinowitz, planted among the Western Wall stones the hundreds of letters that came from all over the world, intended for the One who sits on High. The letters come from people of all beliefs and religions from a wide assortment of countries: Kenya, Spain, India, Belgium, the United States, Japan, Canada, Ecuador, Denmark, Germany, France, Poland, Russia and more. Some of the letters were directed to God, others to Jesus (Yeshua), and they all have the same thing in common – prayer, petition and supplication, each individual in accordance with his or her faith, and even requests for peace and messages to deceased relatives.
