Herod's Four Walls: Why Only One Became the Kotel

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 10, 2026 · 24m

Herod's retaining walls went up as one project, fifteen feet thick, and they're still standing. So why did only the Western Wall become the Kotel? We walk all four sides of the Temple Mount platform — the Iron Age stones in the Eastern Wall, the monumental pilgrim steps along the Southern Wall, the Northern Wall that's now buried inside Mamluk buildings — and then dig into the surprising religious history: a possible case of mistaken identity in the Midrash, a sixteenth-century earthquake, and a question of simple proximity. Key sources: • Wikipedia, Western Wall —…