#western-wall

#western-wall

" Jerusalem should be remembered as a Temple city," said Ari Levy, the excavation director for the Israel Antiquities Authority, said in the announcement. "As such, many aspects of daily life were adapted to this reality, and this is reflected especially in the meticulous observance of the laws of ritual impurity and purity by the city's residents and leaders." Levy noted that stone vessels, which do not contract ritual impurity under Jewish law, were common in the area.