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  2. Torah scroll - Wikipedia

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    It is a religious duty or mitzvah for every Jewish male to either write or have written for him a Torah scroll. Of the 613 commandments, one – the 82nd as enumerated by Rashi, and the final as it occurs in the text the Book of Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 31:19) – is that every Jewish male should write a Torah scroll in his lifetime. This is ...

  3. Torah ark - Wikipedia

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    Archeologists found early Torah arks within the Jewish catacombs in Rome decorated with Pompeian frescoes, paintings, and graffiti. Throughout Europe, in the Middle Ages, designs favored taller arks. In the 14th and 15th centuries, Spanish and German Jewish Hebrew texts depict a new design. These texts placed the scrolls inside the ark standing ...

  4. Bologna Torah Scroll - Wikipedia

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    The Bologna Torah Scroll (also known as the University of Bologna Torah Scroll, circa 1155–1225 CE) is the world's oldest complete extant Torah scroll. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The scroll contains the full text of the five Books of Moses in Hebrew and is kosher.

  5. Tefillin - Wikipedia

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    Tefillin (Israeli Hebrew: תְּפִלִּין ‎ / תְּפִילִּין ‎; Ashkenazic pronunciation:; Modern Hebrew pronunciation:), or phylacteries, are a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah. Tefillin are worn by adult Jews during weekday and Sunday ...

  6. Ancient Jewish art - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that the Temple imagery represents Jewish hope for the restoration of the Temple and the coming of the Messiah. [44] Another structural depiction, common in Jewish art of late antiquity is the Ark of the Scrolls, a chest which stood in the Torah shrine of the synagogue, and in which Torah scrolls and scriptures were stored ...

  7. Mezuzah - Wikipedia

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    Today some Samaritans would also use a Jewish-style mezuzah case and place inside it a small written Samaritan scroll, [35] i.e. a text from the Samaritan Torah, written in the Samaritan alphabet. The more such mezuzot there are in the house, the better it is considered to be. [36]

  8. Torah - Wikipedia

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    Torah reading (Hebrew: קריאת התורה, K'riat HaTorah, "Reading [of] the Torah") is a Jewish religious ritual that involves the public reading of a set 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 excerpt with traditional ...

  9. Yad - Wikipedia

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    A yad (Hebrew: יד, romanized: yad; Yiddish: האַנט, romanized: hant, lit. ' hand ') is a Jewish ritual pointer, or stylus, popularly known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. It is often shaped like a long rod, capped by a small hand with its index finger ...

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