This year I turn to the holiest object stored there: the aron ha-kodesh, the holy ark of the covenant. The ark was a box made of acacia wood overlaid by gold (about 52-by-31-by-31 inches).

Josiah tells the Levites: “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David king of Israel built; they will no longer be a burden on your shoulders” (II Chronicles 35:3).

Even though I am retired, every Jewish New Year I preach a sermon at my synagogue, Temple Beth Torah, in Melville, N.Y., and I cut it down drastically and summarize it in my weekly column. This ...

Holy scripture describes the Ark of the Covenant as a sacred gold chest built by the Israelites shortly after they fled Egypt around the 13th century BC and holds Moses' Ten Commandments tablets.

THE Ark of the Covenant has been lost for more than 2,000 years but one expert believes the holy relic could be lurking deep beneath Jerusalem. By Sebastian Kettley 22:17, Fri, May 8, 2020 ...

They were slaughtered trying to stop real-life raiders of the lost ark — an artifact so powerful and holy they were forbidden from ever seeing it. The harrowing mass-murder of at least 800 pe… ...

This holy ark, the sole object placed within the inner sanctum, the kodesh kodashim, ... Just as God speaks from the mountaintop, here God speaks from the holy of holies.

God, upset by the ... And for centuries, these true believers have searched for Noah’s landing place and the remains of his ark on the rocky, snowy ridges of the Holy Land’s highest mountains.