"They shall make an Aron-Ark of acacia wood ( Atzei Shittim), two and a half cubits its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.. And you shall overlay it with ...

In Hebrew, the word “aron” can mean closet, coffin, or ark (not the Noah one but the one used in our synagogues to house Torah scrolls). Since the ark is a special type of a closet (we store ...

For Jews the Torah means all of these. The Torah scrolls are taken out from the Ark (Aron ha kodesh) and portions read in the synagogue three times each week. On Mondays and Thursdays small ...

As the latest of a number of Jewish heritage projects coordinated by the Vercelli Jewish community in recent years, a 400-year-old wooden Aron Kodesh (Torah scroll ark) has been fully restored and ...

In truth, the Aron and Menorah are part of a larger grouping in the Torah, along with the Kaporet (ark’s cover) and Shulchan (table) which are sectioned off by the Torah, listed separately ...

19 at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue on the Upper East Side. The Aron Kodesh (Hebrew for a Torah ark) will be among 10 lots offered by Guernsey’s auction house. Nine of the lots have a Jewish ...

For Jews the Torah means all of these. The Torah scrolls are taken out from the Ark (Aron ha kodesh) and portions read in the synagogue three times each week. On Mondays and Thursdays small ...