Receptacle which contains a synagogue's Torah scrolls
Torah ark of the Dohány Street Synagogue, built in 1854.
A Torah ark (also known as the hekhal, Hebrew: היכל, or aron qodesh, אֲרוֹן קׄדֶש) refers to an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls.[1]
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A Torahark (also known as the hekhal, Hebrew: היכל, or aron qodesh, אֲרוֹן קׄדֶש) refers to an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah...
of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the scroll (or scrolls) from the Torahark, 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...
from a flood Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses Ark of the Covenant, chest for the tablets of the Ten Commandments Torahark, a cabinet used...
synagogue was rebuilt in the 1025–1040 period. Study of a carved wood Torahark 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 TorahArk,...
of Teck). The interior is simple, with the exception of the elaborate Torahark. 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 Torahark 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 Torahark (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 Torahark, and a seudat mitzvah (festive meal). The mitzvah to write a Torah scroll is the last of the 613 commandments...
bimah and an ornate, seventeenth century, baroque TorahArk. The synagogue possesses the oldest known Torah scroll still in use which dates to the 13th century...
in the ancient Biblical period. Yaniv, Bracha (1999). The Cherubim on TorahArk valances. Assaph: Studies in Art History 4. Bar-Ilan University, Jewish...
synagogue at Padua is that the Ark and Bimah are placed on the synagogues's long walls. The baroque, sixteenth century TorahArk is made from the wood of a...
destruction of the Second Temple, just as the Torah scroll was contained in a Torahark (Aron HaKodesh, "Holy ark") in synagogues, so also the term kaporet...
The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, is believed to have been the most sacred religious relic of the Israelites...
stained glass, are the work of the artist Miksa Róth. The design of the TorahArk alludes to the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Solomon by using sittimwood...
to add galleries was undertaken by Francesco Cantagallina in 1642. The Torahark was built with inlaid colored marble by Isidoro Baratta from Carrara,...
announcement is made after the reading of the sefer Torah, before returning it to the Torahark. The name of the new month, and the day of the week on...
liturgy, the Eitz Chayim is a piyyut commonly sung as the Sefer Torah is returned to the Torahark. The Book of Enoch, generally considered non-canonical, states...
wall, one on each side of the TorahArk, and one above it. The cut-stone surround for the Torahark still exists. The ark was once reached by a flight...
resting place for the TorahArk, the bimah, the raised platform upon which the Torah would have been read, and benches. The TorahArk within the apse was...
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