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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ben Ezra Synagogue (section Torah ark)
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...
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Plymouth Synagogue (section 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...
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Synagogue architecture (section The Ark)
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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Włodawa Synagogue (section Torah Ark)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Mercy seat (category Ark of the Covenant)
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...
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in the ancient Biblical period. Yaniv, Bracha (1999). The Cherubim on Torah Ark valances. Assaph: Studies in Art History 4. Bar-Ilan University, Jewish...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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announcement is made after the reading of the sefer Torah, before returning it to the Torah ark. The name of the new month, and the day of the week on...
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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...
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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...
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prayer. The restoration of the men's section included a Torah ark that can house over 100 Torah scrolls, in addition to new bookshelves, a library, heating...
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City Theater, Teatro Comunale. They feature Jewish motifs such as the Torah ark carried by the Jews during their Exodus from Egypt, and the vestments...
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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...
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Masoretic Text (category Torah)
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...
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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...
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The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, is a purported religious storage and relic held to be the most sacred...
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