Travel Channel star Adam Richman visited Israel this week, sharing many emotional moments from the trip with his fans on social media.
The gastronaut, who often – and proudly – mentions his Jewish heritage on his shows, was on a private visit to Israel with his mother. Through Twitter posts and Instagram stories, he took fans along as he toured Masada, Acre, the Dead Sea, and Jerusalem in what was his first visit to Israel.
In a heartfelt Instagram post on Monday, the Brooklyn native shared with fans his experience visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem, something he said that he had been waiting for since 1987.
“My grandfather had wanted to take my family to Jerusalem to have my bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. A terror attack months before scrapped the whole idea,” Richman wrote.
“I was unprepared for the scope of emotion. I kid you not – the moment I laid my palm upon the bricks, I began to weep. Being there, at the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount, so close to the observance of the Tisha B’Av holiday, where we commemorate the destruction of the temples, you could feel, even among the other
worshipers, that this was a very special time.”
“I felt connected to the tradition of the past and to the spirit of the Holy Land – not just for Jews, but for Christians and Muslims as well. … I can only say I walked away from that wall feeling very different than the man who had walked up to it,” he wrote.
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