Thankfully Hashem Took out His Anger on the Stones and Not on the People.

A very frightening and unusual event happened at the Kotel this morning. A Kotel stone fell out of the wall and onto the floor in front of it. Thankfully nobody was hurt. The stone fell out in the Ezrat Yisrael section (aka the Reform Kotel), and a woman who was praying there ran off frightened after it happened.
Here is a video clip of the front half of the stone falling out onto the platform:

very frightening. those are big and heavy stones. It can do a lot of damage.

Thankfully the statement put out by Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz, rav of the Kotel, did not put spiritual blame on any one person or group, and thankfully he says the experts are going to investigate the incident. I hope they do a full survey of all the stones across the entire Kotel and ensure they are safe and solid and cemented in properly so we don't witness a more tragic re-occurrence of this, God forbid..
As the Medrash in Eicha Rabba (4:14) says, "כך אמרו לאסף הקדוש ברוך הוא החריב היכל ומקדש ואתה יושב ומזמר? אמר להם: מזמר אני ששפך הקדוש ברוך הוא חמתו על העצים ועל האבנים, ולא שפך חמתו על ישראל"
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