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Looking for the origin of custom to decorate the Aron Hakodesh with 10 Commandments
Many synagogues have the custom to decorate the Peroches (curtain covering the Ark) with imagery of the 10 Commandments or Luchos in some form.
When did this custom originate?
Is there any source for ...
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Why does the depiction of the tablets not contain the full wording?
In every single synagogue I've been in which has a depiction of the ten commandments on tablets, not a single one of them had all the words of the commandments fully written out. Usually they have the ...
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