Cherubim appear in many biblical passages. The texts do not explicitly define them. Were they real or just imaginary? What we find in the Bible is not so much what they are but what they do. Western ...

In Parashat Terumah, the first item the Jewish people are commanded to build for the Mishkan is the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred vessel designed to house the Tablets of the Ten Commandments. Yet, a ...

What on earth happened to the cherubim of Soria’s Hermitage of the Virgin of Mirón? Soria Patrimonio, a group dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage in the Spanish city, is asking this ...

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The cherubim are also woven into the fabric of the Tabernacle curtains and also of the parochet, the “veil” that divides the Holy of Holies from the rest of the Tabernacle. “And you shall make an ark ...

Hashem tells Moshe to build an Aron Hakodesh (an Ark of Holiness) ; And you shall make an ark cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width.And you shall make ...