bimah

noun

variants or bima
Definition of bimahnext
as in altar
a raised platform in a synagogue from which the Torah is read He stepped up to the bimah for the reading.

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Recent Examples of bimah The flags of the U.S. and Israel will both be displayed on the bimah, or raised platform, at the front of the sanctuary. — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023 The discovery this week follows the 2019 unearthing of the Tuscan baroque-style bimah, the synagogue’s central prayer platform, in the same dig by a team of international scholars headed by Jon Seligman, director of the antiquities authority’s Excavations, Surveys and Research Department. — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2021 Half was hidden in a safe under the bimah of a synagogue so that even the Germans could not find it. — New York Times, 4 May 2022

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