(78) Temple Emanu-El has two freestanding, seven-branched menorahs on the
bimah alone (Figure 3), and many more appear elsewhere in the building as decorative motifs.
Marzouk told Lurie he had first seen the Codex as a child at the Moussa al Dar'i on Yom Kippur, when it was placed on the
bimah and the congregation filed past it.
The first restoration project he did at the synagogue was of its
bimah -- the raised platform in the sanctuary where the Torah is read.
This would obviate the need for women to go up to the
bimah in the men's section.
His interpretations of popular and liturgical music raised the audience's fervor so that many people were snaking their way and dancing through the aisles and on the
bimah of Ohav Shalom's sanctuary.
Quriyat, June 23 (ONA) A campaign will begin in the Wilayat of Quriyat tomorrow (Thursday) to clean up the beaches and the Omani environment in villages of Daghmar, Dhabab,
Bimah and Fins under the supervision of the Environment and Climate Affairs Ministry.
His eight-year-old son was often called upon to mount the
bimah at shabbat prayer in the synagogue to deliver the scholarly sermon, the d'var Torah when his father was indisposed.
The wooden canopied
bimah was not in the middle of the shul, but--in Sephardic fashion--just to the right of the entrance doorway.
Intricately carved, gilded wood adorned the
bimah (pulpit) on one end of the rectangular room; at the other end, the aron, the cabinet where the Torahs (Hebrew Bible scrolls) are stored, was constructed of the same gilded wood.
And when I come to the
bimah, I want to be able to sing in my song, in my soul, let it be.
He was this very earthy, very physical man, and when I'm giving a massage I sometimes feel I am him, more so than when I'm on the
bimah, even though he was a rabbi.
