Monthly Prayers at Temple Gates
Rabbi Avraham Kahaneman, president of the famed Yeshivat Ponevezh (pronounced Ponovitch) in Bnei Brak, passed away on Monday night after a long illness at the age of 97.

by Staff, Arutz Sheva
February 24, 2009

Thousands of men and women encircle the old Temple gates every evening prior to the new month and recite Psalms. From the time of the capture of the old city of Jerusalem by the Jordanian army during the war of Independence, until the holy city’s liberation in 1967, Jews were forbidden even from entering the old city.

The celebration is not only in honor of the new month but also is in the hope that we will soon see the rebuilt Beit HaMikdash on the Temple Mount.