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Underground passage tracing Herod-era stones along the Temple Mount's western retaining wall, hiding a sealed gate once dug in search of the Ark.
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This guide to the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem follows Rabbi Yehuda Getz in the summer of 1981, wading into a flooded, forgotten passage he believed led toward the Ark of the Covenant itself, after his workers enlarging an underground synagogue broke through into a hall unseen for centuries. It traces the sealed corridor beyond it, first noted a century earlier by a British surveyor, and Getz's conviction that this gate stood closer to the Holy of Holies than any other place a Jew could reach. Look closely at the massive stones beside you, some laid by Herod himself two thousand years ago.
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