Obama's Western Wall Prayer Published

--UPDATED BELOW--

........This news is an accurate barometer of the ridiculous and insane scrutiny that Senator Obama has been receiving over his presidential candidacy and beyond. During a visit to the Western Wall, or Wailing Wall, in Israel, Obama partook in the 2000-year old practice of writing prayers on paper and placing them in the cracks of the wall.

........As reported by CNN, it looks like after Obama left the Wailing Wall his prayer scroll was pried from the cracks. It was later published in an Israeli newspaper.


........I believe this is a despicable intrusion. What is more private that one's personal relationship with his God? The article has not been posted here, and the link omitted, for I would be a hypocrite to do so. If you feel the need to see the prayer, you have the means to do so. I will, however, post the reactions of the rabbi in charge of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitz.--PETER ST GEORGE

"The notes placed between the stones of the Western Wall are between a person and his maker. It is forbidden to read them or make any use of them," he told Army Radio. The publication "damages the Western Wall and damages the personal, deep part of every one of us that we keep to ourselves."--Shmuel Rabinovits via CNN

--UPDATE--

Here is a well-put together article that discusses the leak of Obama's Western Wall paper. I have removed the quotes of Obama's prayer...

Obama's Private Prayer 'Leaked'

extracted from http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826734,00.html?cnn=yes
Obama's Prayer quoted at this url-please proceed with caution

Senator Barack Obama probably thought that the prayer he penned in the solitude of his King David hotel room in Jerusalem would remain between him and the Almighty. But an Orthodox Jewish student had other ideas.

Following Jewish tradition, Obama donned a yarmulke and went to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, where shortly before dawn on Thursday he stuffed his prayer into a crevass between the giant white stones, hewn over 2,000 years ago. Traditionally such prayers, and there are over a million every year, some arriving by fax and email, are collected twice a year and buried on the Mount of Olives. It is considered taboo to read the prayers.

But after Obama and his entourage left the sacred site, an orthodox seminary student went to the Wall, fished out Obama's personal note and delivered it to Maariv newspaper, which duly printed the senator's prayer.

The newspaper's decision to publish Obama's private words was "an outrage", said Rabbbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, supervisor of the Western Wall. "It damages the personal, deep part of every one of us that we keep to ourselves," the rabbi told Army Radio. "The note placed between the stones of the Western Wall are between a person and his maker. It is forbidden to read them or make use of them."

Obama didn't pray for an election victory, a lottery win to help pay for his campaign, or for his Republican rival Senator John McCain to be felled by lightning or a pecadillo. On the contrary; his prayer hints at the struggle within, how Obama is seeking divine guidance to surmount the obstacles that lie ahead of him in his lonely, awesome challenge to become the next president of the United States. On hotel stationary, he penned the following prayer, according to Maariv, which ran a photo of the note: PASSAGE DELETED BY NEWS de INTRIGUE DUE TO DECENCY

Obama, now finishing up the European leg of his tour, has not commented on his private prayer being made public in Jerusalem.