Jerusalem ? Ever felt your prayers went unanswered? Try sending a letter to God, and chances are it will end up — as many do each year — at an Israeli post office in Jerusalem, where they are read and sent on to the holy Western Wall.

The letters come from all over the world in a host of languages. The elderly ask for good health. Others seek heavenly remedies for debts, relationship assistance or help finding jobs. Children mainly ask God to spring them from homework assignments.

The trickle of letters increases around Christmas and other holidays.

“We have hundreds and thousands of letters sent to either God or Jesus Christ, and for some unknown reason they all come to Jerusalem,” said Yitzhak Rabihiya, a postal spokesman.

As long as anyone at the post office can remember, the letters to God have turned up at the Postal Authority’s center for undeliverable mail in an industrial zone in Jerusalem.

In the tiny warehouse, eight workers sort problem envelopes into pigeon holes labeled for junk mail, government bureaus, social security and health insurance offices and “Letters to God.”

Ten such pleas for divine intervention have arrived in the last couple of days, some from the United States, France, Nigeria, Australia and Ecuador. One came — somehow — with no stamps.

Puzzled by what to do with the letters, one worker started taking them to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, where Jews traditionally stuff tiny notes of prayer in the cracks between its hulking stones.

“From there, it’s not in our hands,” Rabihiya said.