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- Bimah or Bimmah may refer to: Bema or, in Jewish contexts, bimah: an elevated platform, a dais; also "stage" in Modern Hebrew Bimah Prefecture in Togo...
- it is used for Torah reading during services, the term used is bima or bimah. The Ancient Gr**** bēma (βῆμα) means both 'platform' and 'step', being derived...
- reading desk. Bimah of the Saluzzo Synagogue, Saluzzo, Italy Bimah of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, US Cast-iron Bimah of the Old Synagogue...
- raised platform, from which the Torah is read. The table/platform, called bimah by eastern Ashke****m, almemmar (or balemmer) by Central and Western Ashke****m...
- outside or inside the ark doors); The elevated reader's platform (called bimah by Ashke****m and tebah by Sephardim), where the Torah is read (and services...
- Binah is a prefecture located in the Kara Region of Togo. At the time of the 2022 census it had a po****tion of 84,199 people. The prefecture seat is located...
- Synagogue is a rare surviving example of the vaulted synagogues with a bimah-tower, that were built throughout the Polish lands in masonry from the sixteenth...
- 'going up') is the calling of a member of a Jewish congregation up to the bimah for a segment of the formal Torah reading. One receiving an aliyah is called...
- rib design.: 172–173  The bimah from which Torah scrolls are read is located between the two pillars. The base of the bimah repeats the twelve vine motif...
- describing the holiday being observed are read aloud from a Torah scroll on the bimah (platform) used at the center of the synagogue services. During the Jewish...