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bimah

In Judaism, a raised platform in a synagogue from which the Torah scroll is read.



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It was, like, mayhem as I looked out from the bimah into the audience.
This is who is up on the bimah [a synagogue's raised platforin where the Torah is read].
The men ceremoniously remove a Torah scroll from the ark and carry it around the sanctuary for worshipers to touch with their prayer shawls before it is placed on the bimah and read.
 
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