{"id":121,"date":"2016-07-20T18:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/?p=121"},"modified":"2016-07-20T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T18:41:59","slug":"kosel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/2016\/07\/kosel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosel, Western Wall, Wailing Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;&#8230; kotel <span class=\"script-hebrew\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05d4\u05b7\u05db\u05b9\u05bc\u05ea\u05b6\u05dc \u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05e2\u05b2\u05e8\u05b8\u05d1\u05b4\u05d9 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>appears only once (Shir Hashirim 2:9). Kotel<\/em> likely has Aramaic origins, and Klein points out\u00a0that the Aramaic cognate \u05db\u05ea\u05dc\u05d0 <em>kutla<\/em> is probably a loan word from the Akkadian <em>kutallu<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;back side&#8221;. It was used frequently in rabbinic Hebrew, but in modern Hebrew it&#8217;s generally reserved to describe the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Wall\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Wall&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1469113130918000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGfZ8uRFBbneCW3oFzHbz7zTi6U7w\">western retaining wall of the Temple Mount<\/a> &#8211; the <em>kotel hamaaravi<\/em> \u05d4\u05db\u05d5\u05ea\u05dc \u05d4\u05de\u05e2\u05e8\u05d1\u05d9.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/RHNO2xU49nvb_iva5eDpSNfSslAfdcQ0h8zPO1x1Vux94654NJ-PkcG9Rayr0jVZvC8ezBHIryXtAnyyrgSgSeHNJdwkqtBgGO9-0pEXSRhW666a8uBVhnjhLVo5LmUbZSGsGDgEvvLu87KZrZcU2aGEbg=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Balashon\/~4\/OPzFBcNJNm0?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balashon.com\/2016\/07\/kir-choma-kotel.html\">\u00a0Balashon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; kotel \u05d4\u05b7\u05db\u05b9\u05bc\u05ea\u05b6\u05dc \u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05b7\u05bc\u05e2\u05b2\u05e8\u05b8\u05d1\u05b4\u05d9 \u00a0\u00a0appears only once (Shir Hashirim 2:9). Kotel likely has Aramaic origins, and Klein points out\u00a0that the Aramaic cognate \u05db\u05ea\u05dc\u05d0 kutla is probably a loan word from the Akkadian kutallu &#8211; &#8220;back side&#8221;. It was used frequently in rabbinic Hebrew, but in modern Hebrew it&#8217;s generally reserved to describe the western retaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hebrew","tag-kotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hebrewusedbooks.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}