$500 million in checks found at Jerusalem’s Western Wall

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Holy Powerball.
For centuries, worshippers have been tucking slips containing written prayers into the cracks of Jerusalem’s Western Wall. On Wednesday, one man found an answer he wasn’t expecting.
The man came to the wall to pray for financial security, according to the Jerusalem Post. He found an envelope at the site stuffed with checks that added up to $500 million dollars.
There were 507 checks total, signed and written for about $1 million each. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who oversees the Wall, said most of them were Nigerian, but some came from the United States, Europe, and Asia.
The checks weren’t addressed to anyone and they probably can’t be cashed in
The man, working through a lawyer, took the envelope to the police. A spokesperson said the police were investigating whether the checks were forged.
This isn’t the first time such holy checks have surfaced. Rabinovitch said he has found checks in the Wall’s charity boxes before, mostly written by worshippers from Africa. All of those checks bounced.
Rabinovitch said he believes the check writers had good intentions. He thinks they “wanted to give all they had to the Creator of the Universe.”