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TIL one man is responsible for removing all the old paper prayers from Jerusalem’s Western Wall, his name is Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz. Twice a year he and his team collects hundreds of thousands of notes and buries them on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olive

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