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What is the function of an ark in a synagogue?
The Holy Ark is the place where the Torah scrolls are kept.
What is stored in the Jewish ark in a synagogue?
Torah scrolls
What is a parochet in a synagogue?
It's the curtain in front of the Holy Ark.
Where would you find the ark in the synagogue?
We don't know where the ark is and it has never been in a synagogue. It had been in the temple in a room called the Holy of Holies.
What is always found in a Jewish house of worship?
Each synagogue has a holy ark, which is a tall, heavy, fancy cabinet with a curtain in front and double doors and in which the Torah-scrolls are stored. The Torah-scroll is placed upon a low, heavy cabinet called a bima, when it is to be read from.
What is the arc in the synagogue?
Perhaps you're referring to the 'ark'. The ark is where the Torah scrolls are stored.
What does the ark in a synagogue do?
The Ark in a Synagogue is an intricately decorated cabinet used for storing the Torah scrolls - the Jewish holy scripture. It is placed so that it is facing the city of Jerusalem and is one of the most important standard objects in the Synagogue.
Where is the Judaism book held?
In the Holy Ark in every synagogue (Jewish house of prayer).
Where are the first words of the ten commandments on a synagogue?
They can be displayed anywhere in the synagogue (often they're over the Holy Ark, or embroidered on its curtain).
What does the word ark mean in Hebrew?
It depends on how you use the word: If you are talking about the Holy Ark where the torah scrolls are kept in a synagogue: ah-ROHN (ארון) If you are talking about Noah's Ark: teh-VAH (תבה)
What is a mantle in a synagogue. What does it do?
The mantle is a tapestry that goes over the Holy Ark, which serves both to sanctify the Holy Ark and the Torahs that lie within and serves as an artwork to show Jewish devotion to God.
What is a Jewish ark?
1) The holy ark is the special ark in each synagogue in which the Torah-scrolls are stored. It is a tall, heavy, fancy cabinet. 2) The holy ark was the Ark of the Covenant in which the two Stone Tablets with the Ten Commandments were held. 3) Noah's ark (Genesis ch.6), a type of huge boat, is recorded in the Torah and in the history of many ancient nations. The word for this ark in Hebrew is not the same as the above two.
