Torah mantle

A Torah mantle ( Hebrew מְעִיל, Meʿil ) is a textile ritual object in the synagogue that is used to decorate and protect the Torah scroll . Torah cloaks are usually made of velvet or silk and are embroidered with representations of a crown , tablets of the law or lions .

Sephardic Torah sheaths are often cylindrical in shape, while Ashkenazi Torah sheaths are flat. In Oriental Judaism , a tik is used instead of the Torah cloak to protect the Torah scroll .

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  Torah scrolls wrapped in coats in the Westend Synagogue , Frankfurt am Main

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  Torah mantle with Torah attachments ( rimonim )

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  Torah coats, Turin

See also

• Mappa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz: "Meil / Tora-Mantel" In: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek , Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz and Gerhard Milchram (eds.): The Turks in Vienna. History of a Jewish Community. Commissioned by the Jewish Museum Vienna, 2010. p. 126 and p. 128