Add God to your e-mail addresses

October 31, 1996
Web posted at: 8:45 p.m. EST (0145 GMT)

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An Israeli Internet access company has started delivering e-mailed messages to Jerusalem's Western Wall, where Jewish tradition says God picks up His mail.

Virtual Jerusalem offers the service for free.

"People look for a way of communicating with God and the outer wall of the Temple is as close as you can get to him," said Avi Moskowitz, president of Virtual Jerusalem.

Moskowitz said his company does not read the e-mail, which is printed onto four or five sheets of paper, then stuffed in cracks in the Wall.

Jews have placed hand-written prayer messages in crevices of the "wailing wall" for hundreds of years. The wall is the last remnant of the Jewish Temple destroyed in 70 A.D.

Moskowitz suggested that sending e-mail could be the most effective way to pray: "You know that your prayer is going to the closest place that you can get to God."

Another company's "fax a prayer" service to the Wall has been available for several years.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.  

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