Editing Western Wall (section)

====Prayer notes====
{{Main|Placing notes in the Western Wall}}
[[File:Prayer Papers in the Western Wall.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Slips of paper containing prayers in the cracks of the Wall]]

There is a much publicised practice of placing slips of paper containing [[kvitelach|written prayers]] into the crevices of the Wall. The earliest account of this practice describes [[Chaim ibn Attar]] (d. 1743) writing an amulet for a petitioner and instructing him to place it inside the wall.<ref>{{Cite web |title=מסעות ירושלים - גולדשטין, משה בן יהודה (page 76 of 284) |url=https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=10152&st=&pgnum=76 |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=hebrewbooks.org}}</ref> More than a million notes are placed each year<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826734,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726202612/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826734,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 26, 2008 |title=Obama's Private Prayer 'Leaked' |magazine=Time |date=July 25, 2008 |access-date=August 19, 2009}}</ref> and the opportunity to e-mail notes is offered by a number of organisations.<ref>{{cite book
| last= Starr
| first= Joyce Shira
| title= Faxes and Email to God: At the Western Wall of Jerusalem
| year= 1995
| publisher= [[iUniverse]]
| isbn= 978-1-893652-37-8
}}</ref> It has become customary for visiting dignitaries to place notes too.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2000/3/Letter%20Placed%20by%20Pope%20John%20Paul%20II%20at%20the%20Western
| title= Letter Placed by Pope John Paul II at the Western Wall
| access-date= October 7, 2008
| publisher= [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Tim|last=McGirk|title=Obama's Private Prayer Leaked|date=July 25, 2008|work=Time Magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826734,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726202612/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826734,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 26, 2008}}</ref>