The door

   Taken from wikipedia

The story I’m going to tell you right now doesn’t happen in a distant land and has no magic and fairy tales. It starts here in Israel.

It was a pretty routine and boring summer day.  Joel, who was a Doctor of Archaeology and responsible for excavating the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem, sat in his office looking drowsy. For a long time, no significant new discoveries were made, even though the Western Wall tunnels and excavations continued to be conducted as regular.

Taken from The Western Wall Heritage Foundation

https://thekotel.org/he/kotel-about-what_is_western_wall/%D7%9E%D7%94%D7%95-%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99

Joel, who was the head of the excavation team, felt disappointed with the situation and after months of arriving every day for the excavations decided to Stay in his office.

He was disappointed and discouraged by the state of the excavations….

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, one of the main diggers under Joel Dunn’s management came in. Dan’s face showed enthusiasm and pressure.

Joel immediately realized something had happened in the trenches and asked Dan if you’d found anything.

Dan told Joel that they had made a discovery that could change history and what we know about the temple. They found a door just below the Wall in the tunnels.

Taken from wikipedia

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9C

Huge door.

The sense of boredom dissipated was replaced by a sense of urgency and enthusiasm, Joel immediately left his office and ran after Dan to the tunnels.

It was clear to Joel  and to Dan that before the destruction of the Temple of The Second Temple, the priests and the Levites hid some of the holy utes and maybe even the Holy Ark in an unknown place.

Joel realized that such a door in the Western Wall tunnels should it open would reveal a variety of secrets.

Taken from wikiwand

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9C#/media/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:KotelTunnels14.jpg

Joel and the diggers rushed to the scene, they cleaned the door and tried to open it in several ways, but every time they tried the tunnels began shaking and threatened to destroy the last remaining remnant of the Western Wall Temple.

Another problem arose when one of the young assistants at the excavation site was enthusiastic and told journalists about the door and the significance.

This prompted journalists to publish rumors about the door and the danger of opening it, causing huge protests by the Arab residents of Jerusalem.

Taken from Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper from September 22, 2016.

They stood at the entrance to the excavation site and claimed that such an excavation could also harm their holy of holies in Al Aqsa.

The hustle and bustle and shouting of the Arabs at the entrance to the excavation site did not violate the tandem of Dan and Joel they were imbued with purpose.

Dan Joel and the investigative team continued vigorously to try and open the door in all sorts of ways that do not to endanger the remains of the temple and tunnels but in vain the door refused to open.

On the same day, instructions came from the government those excavations should be stopped in this area of the door and continue digging the usual tunnels for fear of riots in Jerusalem that will cause conflict and even war with the Arab world.

Dan and Joel couldn’t do anything. All the kosher and gentle ways to open the door were unsuccessful and aggressive opening the door’s going to cause irreversible damage to probably the two most important holy places for Jews and Arabs.

Other experts from around the world have also determined that if the door opens, there is a good chance that the remaining remains will be left the temple including the Western Wall will be at risk of collapse and therefore the door remains sealed

What’s behind the door and what’s hidden behind it and what secrets it’ll reveal.

Is this a treasure shed at the gate leading to secret passages to the Holy of Holies?

Control room of the same creature that we call God ,Continuing the tunnels to another wing of the temple or just a disappointment

Joel and his friends promised not to try and open the door,  but continued to investigate.

The breakthrough in the investigation came one day from an unexpected direction.

One day an old man came to the entrance to the excavation site and asked to speak to the director of the excavation.

The old man was immediately sent to Joel’s room and after making sure that it was really the director of the investigation he asked to speak with him in person.

The old man said he comes from a family of priests and wants to tell Joel a story that his grandfather told him going from generation to generation to generation.

He told him about a door that could lead to the holy of holies and opens by moving a stone with the mark Old Jew emblazoned on it that opens the door by moving it from left to right.

The old man attached to Joel the sign that should be on the door and asked to join him to open it because only priests

supposed to go through it.

Joel wavered and finally decided to attach the old man to the tunnels on the condition that he sign with him so that he was Responsibility if anything happens to him during the tunnel adventure.

Joel Dan and the priest arranged to meet at the entrance to the excavation site an hour after the site was closed. After all, they won’t have a problem entering the site at night if The Joel Nou Site Manager has a key.

That evening, the three met by the tunnels and began to descend to the site, closing the site without anyone entering.

The three came down and reached the door and soon found the sign in question. Joel respected the old man and let him open the door he’s been waiting for his whole life.

The old man pressed the stone the door shook but opened gently and behind it you wouldn’t believe it even if I told you I’d leave it for now and therefore purpes you will be able to find the soulotion what  can be find bheind this door…

taken from youtube

remark

The story of the door found in the Western Wall excavations is sadly true and to this day has not been opened. For real fear of the collapse of the temple remains. The rest of the story is fiction I invented myself.

Written by   Daniel Keren

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