Parochet

Parochet of a synagogue in Lublin that was destroyed in 1942 . Today in the Synagogue of Bielsko-Biała

A Parochet (also: Parokhet or Ashkenazi : Paroches , English: Torah curtain ) is the curtain in front of the Torah shrine in a synagogue that covers the Torah scrolls . In Ashkenazi synagogues, the often richly decorated curtain made of velvet, silk, linen or brocade is in front, in Sephardic and Italian synagogues behind the doors of the Torah shrine. The parochet represents the cover that was on the ark .

In many synagogues it is customary to exchange the normally colored parochet for a white copy between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur during the days of penance, the ten days of repentance .

The parochots used in the Jerusalem temple were made of wool and linen and were therefore exempt from the Schaatnes command (mixture of two kinds of Lev 19.19  EU ).

See also

• Temple curtain

Web links

Commons : Parochet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism . 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 613.