Rabbi tells Pope Benedict XVI not to wear crucifix during May visit to the Western Wall

"My position is that it is not fitting to enter the Western Wall area with religious symbols, including a cross," Shmuel Rabinovitch

"crosses are a symbol that hurt Jewish feelings."

Shmuel Rabinovitch

'That man you see nailed down

advised the Pharisees it was the better course

that one man should be martyred for the people.

'He is stretched out naked, as you see,

across the path. It is his lot to feel

the weight of each who passes.

'Just so his father-in-law is racked with us

down here and with the others of the council

that was a seed of evil for the Jews.

'I saw that Virgil marveled at the sight

of this shape stretched as on a cross,

so ignoble in his eternal exile.

Canto XXIII Inferno