Yad


a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the torah as a place marker.
contemporary examples

exclusive: congressional travel spikes, despite vows of austerity laura colarusso june 12, 2011
ultra-orthodox jews vandalize jerusalem’s holocaust memorial alex klein june 10, 2012
in jerusalem, the holocaust is trivialized dan ephron january 3, 2012
mr. president, don’t forget the nakba yousef munayyer march 18, 2013
n-z-s’ ‘perfect aryan’ child was jewish the telegraph july 2, 2014

historical examples

zoological mythology (volume ii) angelo de gubernatis
some jewish witnesses for christ rev. a. bernstein, b.d.
zoological mythology (volume ii) angelo de gubernatis
annals of the bodleian library, oxford, a.d. 1598-a.d. 1867 william dunn macray
the gtakaml rya sra

noun
(judaism) a hand-held pointer used for reading the sefer torah

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