[Avodah] Davening Outside (was davening in public)

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:17:29PM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
> : I am lost - The kotel plaza is NOT on har Hamoriah.
> 
> It's not? I thought Har haBayis was one peak on har haMoriah.
> 
> Hadrian built the Antonia fortress on a higher one, just outside the
> North-West corner of Har haBayis, overlooking (and implicitly
> threatening) the Jews within.
> 
> AFAIK, unlike RZS's post, the slopes of Har haMoria did end at Gei Ben
> Hinnom.

Gei Ben Hinnom is in the south.  The valley that used to go through
the Old City ran north to south, separating the mountain on which are
Har Habayit and Ir David, and which was known then as Har Tziyon, from
the western mountain which is now known as Har Tziyon, where the so-
called "Kever David" is.  That's why it's impossible for a tunnel to
have led from "Kever David" to the Kidron valley: it would have had
to go through that mountain, then through empty air to the other
mountain, and clear through it to the Kidron.  And since we know that
such a tunnel did exist from the actual Kever David, that actual Kever
must be in what's known as Ir David.

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