- Holy of Holies,
originally containing the Ark of the Covenant. The main
hekhal contained a
number of
sacred ritual objects including the seven-branched...
- A
Torah ark (also
known as the
hekhal, Hebrew: היכל, or aron qodesh, אֲרוֹן קׄדֶש) is an
ornamental chamber in the
synagogue that
houses the
Torah scrolls...
- The
Hekhal Haness Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת היכל הנס) is an
Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue,
located in Geneva, in the
Canton of Geneva,...
-
called the aron
qodesh (Hebrew: אָרוֹן קׄדֶש) by Ashke**** Jews and the
hekhal (היכל) by
Sephardic Jews.
Synagogues are
buildings for
congregational worship...
-
features of a
synagogue are: The ark (called aron ha-kodesh by Ashke****m and
hekhal by Sephardim)
where the
Torah scrolls are kept (the ark is
often closed...
- tradition. One of the
Hebrew inscriptions mentions the
hekhal,
reading "I will bow down
before Your Holy
hekhal...." The
second focus, the
bimah (elevated platform)...
- the Priests; and the
Temple building itself, with the
larger Holy
Place (
hekhal),
called the "greater house" and the "temple" and the
smaller "inner sanctum"...
- a
Torah scroll (Sefer Torah) is
housed in the
Torah ark (Aron
Kodesh or
Hekhal),
which in its turn is
usually veiled by an
embroidered parochet (curtain)...
-
Interior of the
Amsterdam Synagogue: the bema (or tebáh) is in the foreground, and the
Hekhál (Ark) in the background....
-
hosts an
important Sephardic community. Its main synagogue, the
Synagogue Hekhal Haness, is
considered to be the most
important Sephardic synagogue in Switzerland...
