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...

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)...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

to mark the completion of the building, the keystone was placed in the Torah ark with a silver trowel made purposely for the occasion. This trowel, together...

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...

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...

of Musaf for these days. In many communities, it is chanted while the Torah ark is open and the congregants are standing. It is the "central poem of the...

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...

Synagogues have a continually lit lamp or light in front of the Torah ark, where the Torah scroll is kept, called the ner tamid (eternal light). This lamp...

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...

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...

as Sinai Temple or Stephen S. Wise Temple. Inside the synagogue, the Torah ark is a replica of the one in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. In the...

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...

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...

included additions to the men's section included a Torah ark that can house over one hundred Torah scrolls, in addition to new bookshelves, a library...

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...

manuscript of the Book of Leviticus found near an ancient synagogue's Torah ark in Ein Gedi have identical wording to the Masoretic Text. The Masoretic...

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...

into modernist buildings. Adolph Gottlieb designed the curtain for the Torah Ark, Robert Motherwell designed a mural, and Herbert Ferber created an exterior...

skyline. Interior of the Main synagogue (Italian: Tempio Maggiore) The Torah ark The Sephardi synagogue (Italian: Tempio Spagnolo) Silverware on display...