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epa01315131 A worker cleans out some of the tens of thousands of hand written notes, or prayers, that visitors left behind, stuffed into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, as the wall is cleaned on 15 April 2008, pior to the start of the week-long Jewish high holiday of Passover. One note, at bottom, reads, 'I love the world! Thank you for Blessing Us with people, animals, water ...and everything!' Passover commemorates the Israelites exodus from Egypt and is a time when Jews clean their homes and remove all traces of leavening. The Western Wall is cleared of its prayers twice a year as the notes are gathered and delived to the nearby Mount of Olives where the notes are buried with a Rabbi reciting prayers. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER