The Kotel Doesn't Belong to You (And That's the Point) | WATCH

Everyone is screaming right now:

“MY RIGHTS! MY KOTEL! HOW DARE THEY!”

But what if…

that’s exactly why you don’t belong there?

Everyone’s talking about the Supreme Court.

“How can they allow protests. but limit people at the Kotel?”

And suddenly -

the Kotel became… a rights issue.

“My access.”

“My feelings.”

“My place.”

But let me ask you something -

since when is the Kotel about you?

The Kotel is not where you go to feel powerful.

It’s where you go… to feel small.

There’s a story about the Chofetz Chaim.

He once sent a letter to Rabbi Shmuel Salant in Yerushalayim.

Inside the letter, was one request:

“Please go to the Kotel…

and pray for me…

that I should have Yirat Shamayim.”

Think about that.

This is the man who taught the world Torah,

who wrote sefarim on guarding your speech,

on holiness, on growth…

And what does he want from the Kotel?

Not success.

Not health.

Not money.

Just one thing:

Yirat Shamayim.

So the question is not:

“Can you get into the Kotel?”

The question is:

“When you get there… what are you coming for?”

Even people who aren’t religious…

even non-Jews…

they walk up to the Kotel - and something hits them.

Why?

It’s just stones, right?

No.

It’s the one place in the world

where your ego… doesn’t survive.

Because the Kotel is not about rights.

It’s about reality.

Chazal say,

"Hashem cannot be in the same place as arrogance."

A person who feels:

“I did this. I built this. I control this.”

Hashem says:

“I’m not there.”

But at the Kotel…

Hashem never leaves.

So what happens when a person full of ego walks in?

For one moment —

his ego disappears.

And suddenly… he feels something real.

So everyone shouting right now —

“My rights! My access! My Kotel!”

They’re missing the entire point.

The Kotel is not yours.

You belong to it.

And the whole avodah there is one thing:

To become like dust.

To realize ---

you’re not in control.