Wednesday, April 4, 2018

April 4, 2018 -- During Passover week, multitudes gather at Western Wall for Priestly Blessing.

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Jewish worshipers pray in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the traditional priestly blessing on the Passover holiday, April 2, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

During this week of Pesach in Jerusalem (2018), thousands have gathered at the Kotel (Western Wall) for the Birkat HaKohanim (Priestly Blessing).  One estimate suggests nearly 100,000 gathered for the blessing.  US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman even attended the event.  

I found a couple videos that are of interested.  I have included them below as links.

Priestly Blessing Video from Asef Chavar

 Video of Birkat HaKohanim from Yehudah Glick


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