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Temple Beth Sholom (transliterated from Hebrew as "House of Peace") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4144 Chase Avenue, on Miami Beach, Florida, in the United States. It is the largest and oldest congregation [ clarification needed ] [ when? ] [ where? ] with 1210 member households. [ 1 ]
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. [ 1 ] History
Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El, Lower East Side; Lab/Shul, Lower West Side; Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, Midtown; Central Synagogue, Midtown; Sutton Place Synagogue, Midtown; TriBeCa Synagogue, Tribeca; Congregation Emanu-El of New York. Temple Emanu-El of New York (1930), Upper East Side; Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Upper East Side
The Shul was founded by Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, [2] who was sent in 1969 as an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn, to Miami Beach. [3]After finding no active Jewish community in the Surfside area, Lipskar initially met in hotel rooms before moving to a storefront.
The middle school was added in 1983 and the high school in 1998. In January 2011, the David Posnack Jewish Day School consolidated its lower, middle, and high schools onto one campus in Davie, Florida. Previously, only the lower school was located on the campus, with the middle and high schools located in Plantation, Florida.
A synagogue always contains a Torah ark where the Torah scrolls are kept, called the aron qodesh (Hebrew: אָרוֹן קׄדֶש) by Ashkenazi Jews and the hekhal by Sephardic Jews. Synagogues are buildings for congregational worship, and thus require a large central space (as do churches and mosques).
At least two gravesites with skeletal fragments were uncovered, and one cranium, possibly belonging to a woman who was 45 years old at death, that may have been part of a ceremonial burial.
A Torah scroll (Hebrew: סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה Sifrei Torah) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning the five books of Moses (the first books of the Hebrew Bible). The Torah scroll is mainly used in the ritual of Torah reading during Jewish prayers.