A Torah ark (also known as the hekhal, Hebrew: היכל, or aron qodesh, אֲרוֹן קׄדֶש) is an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls...

of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the scroll (or scrolls) from the Torah ark, chanting the appropriate...

A Torah scroll (Hebrew: סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה Sifrei Torah) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning...

congregations, this is the only time of year on which the Torah scrolls are taken out of the ark and read at night. In the morning, the last parashah of...

Moses Ark of the Covenant, the chest for the tablets of the Ten Commandments Torah ark, a cabinet used to store a synagogue's Torah scrolls Ark, a planet...

synagogue was rebuilt in the 1025–1040 period. Study of a carved wood Torah ark door reliably attributed to the synagogue sheds light on the history of...

Ark. In Sephardic synagogues, the table for reading the Torah (reading dais) was commonly placed at the opposite side of the room from the Torah Ark,...

of Teck). The interior is simple, with the exception of the elaborate Torah ark. The building has a flat ceiling and a women's gallery along three walls...

is a minyan, a quorum, of ten. A synagogue always contains an Torah ark where the Torah scrolls are kept, called the aron qodesh (Hebrew: אָרוֹן קׄדֶש)...

of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the Torah scroll (or scrolls) from the ark, chanting the appropriate...

covers the Torah ark (Aron Kodesh) containing the Torah scrolls in a synagogue. The parochet symbolizes the curtain that covered the Ark of the Covenant...

service, placement of the scroll in the Torah ark, and a seudat mitzvah (festive meal). The mitzvah to write a Torah scroll is the last of the 613 commandments...

by 7 m (59 by 23 ft). As is usual in Italian synagogues, the Bimah and Torah Ark are located at opposite sides of the room, with the space in between left...

Torah Ark is particularly fine. It is a 2004 restoration of the Torah Ark built in 1936, itself reproducing from old photographs the wooden Torah Ark...

Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples...

in the ancient Biblical period. Yaniv, Bracha (1999). The Cherubim on Torah Ark valances. Assaph: Studies in Art History 4. Bar-Ilan University, Jewish...

center of the synagogue, separate from the Torah ark. In other branches of Judaism, the bima and the Ark are joined together.[citation needed] Reform...

introduces the Kedusha of Musaf for these days. It is chanted while the Torah ark is open and the congregants are standing. It is the "central poem of the...

destruction of the Second Temple, just as the Torah scroll was contained in a Torah ark (Aron HaKodesh, "Holy ark") in synagogues, so also the term kaporet...

installed in 1882–1883. Underneath it there is a monumental aron ha-kodesh (Torah ark). The most impressive decorative element in the synagogue is a gilded...

eastern wall, one on each side of the Torah ark, and one above it. The cut-stone surround for the Torah ark exists. The ark was once reached by a flight of...

textiles and crafts find use in the creation of religious items like torah ark curtains or robes used in Jewish traditions and ceremonies like bar mitzvah...

Leviticus, making it the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book ever found in a Torah ark. The deciphered text fragment is identical to what was to become, during...

offers to give Stacy her first kiss. Hiding behind the curtains of a Torah ark, they are interrupted by their teacher, Rabbi Rebecca, which leads to...

inscribed on the tympanum above the door leading to the sanctuary. The wooden Torah ark, located on the wall opposite the entrance, is simply designed, possessing...

bimah and an ornate, seventeenth century, baroque Torah Ark. The synagogue possesses the oldest known Torah scroll still in use which dates to the 13th century...

liturgy, the Eitz Chayim is a piyyut commonly sung as the Sefer Torah is returned to the Torah ark. The Book of Enoch, generally considered non-canonical, states...

were taken from a synagogue originally built in 1639 and the Torah ark dates from 1744. The ark is made from a solid piece of jacaranda wood from Brazil....

Conservative congregations, the Torah Ark remains closed while it is recited (except on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, when the Ark is opened), but in some Reform...

stained glass, are the work of the artist Miksa Róth. The design of the Torah Ark alludes to the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Solomon by using sittimwood...