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- noun The
elevated platform in aJewish synagogue from which theTorah is read.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The sanctuary is a low-lit carpeted hall filled with nine long rows of padded, auditorium-style seats clustered around a raised platform called the bimah.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The first occurred at a grandson's bar mitzvah during what is know as the Torah Passing Ceremony where family members stand in line on the bimah stage and the Rabbi symbolically passes the holy scrolls down from one generation to another.
Marsha Temlock: Grandparents Fan the Flame of Divorce Marsha Temlock 2011
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As Kushner rises, he smiles at Kerry and at me and then heads to the bimah.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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As Kushner rises, he smiles at Kerry and at me and then heads to the bimah.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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"They were going to make me sit on the bimah," Kushner grins sheepishly.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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"They were going to make me sit on the bimah," Kushner grins sheepishly.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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As Kushner rises, he smiles at Kerry and at me and then heads to the bimah.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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The first occurred at a grandson's bar mitzvah during what is know as the Torah Passing Ceremony where family members stand in line on the bimah stage and the Rabbi symbolically passes the holy scrolls down from one generation to another.
Marsha Temlock: Grandparents Fan the Flame of Divorce Marsha Temlock 2011
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"They were going to make me sit on the bimah," Kushner grins sheepishly.
Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship Lily Blau 2010
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From the day in 1890 when Ray Frank publicly addressed a Kol Nidre service in Spokane Washington, through the rise and fall of Second Wave Feminism, Jewish women across denominations have traced their journeys — metaphorically and literally — out from the balcony and onto the main stage of religious life, even onto the bimah itself.
Celebrating Women's History Month: Jewish Women and Religious Innovation 2010
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