For hundreds of years, Jews have been placing notes containing their wishes and prayers between the Western Wall’s stones. It is believed that the Wall, the last remainder of the Second Temple, serves as a direct channel to G-d.

Twitter users now have the opportunity to practice the age-old tradition of placing notes with their prayers in between the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a.k.a The Kotel. They can tweet the prayers and (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). They will be printed on real paper, cut down to small notes, and placed in the Wall. Non-Jewish tweeters are more than welcome to use this service, as well.

The founders of this service hope to make the Kotel more accessible to people around the world. Tweeting only takes a few seconds, and it’s substantially easier, quicker and cheaper than hoping on a plane to Israel. For more information, visit http://www.tweetyourprayers.info, email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or twitter at http://www.twitter.com/TheKotel.