Word: scroll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goldenberg left the workroom back of old man Bibichkow's tailor shop on Chicago's West Side with $2 and came back with a bundle of balsawood, twine and glue. Jolly, dark-haired, young Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October, 1929-their books showed: gross business, $5.59; expenses, $3.35; balance...
...wanted. At first the Trotskys and the Riveras got along beautifully. Diego Rivera issued a furious pro-Trotskyist manifesto to the world. Léon Trotsky settled down to the first peace he had had in years. Frida Rivera painted a picture of herself holding a little scroll on which was declared her love for Léon Trotsky...
Holiest object in a synagogue is its Torah (scroll of the Jewish Law). The Torah, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament, is God's covenant with Moses and his people. The countless minute provisions of the Law, and the later commentaries which Jews say "put fences" around it, gave Jewry a complete guide to religious, social, physical behavior. Thus the Torah, in its ark or shrine, is the focal point in the most solemn synagogue services...
...calf or goat), hand-written by a scribe who must perform his task with the greatest purity of spirit and body, often taking a bath before writing. If anyone drops the Torah during a service, everyone present must fast for one day. Though it may be carefully uncovered, the scroll must not be touched by hand...
...oldest synagogue before that edifice, like the others, was fired. The Vienna Jewish community instructed Chemist Goldschmiedt to present the Torah to an orthodox synagogue in the U. S. Without such instruction, the Torah would have been considered stolen property by good Jews. Mr. Goldschmiedt gave the scroll, wrapped in a striped prayer shawl, to Manhattan's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, which had it examined meticulously by a scribe, lest a jot or a tittle had been added or erased. The Congregation planned shortly to have it reconsecrated, to invite Catholics and Protestants to the ceremony...