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The imposing bimah

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The imposing bimah (reader's platform) occupied a niche on the west wall. From here the Torah was read on the Sabbath and high Holidays. The bimah is at one end of the polar-axis, opposite the ehal. The drama of the liturgy transpires between these two points.

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