Img. ID: 47530
The silver Torah Pointer consists of a hanger, a bar and a pointer.
The upper arm of the bar is faceted.It is decorated on each facet by a different geometrical pattern.
The upper arm is surmounted by a loop inserted through a ring. The lower arm is flat and bears two inscriptions in linear letters. On the upper facet the inscription is as follows:
תורה צוה לנו משה מורשה קוהלת יעקב Moses commanded us a low, even the inheritence of the congretion of Jacob.(Deut 33:4)
The oposite side of the lower facet bears a dedicatory inscription.The inscriptions are read from the bar towards the pointer. The pointer is in a shape of an open flat hand. The upper hand bears an inscription wich reads from the fingers towerds the bar, from right to left:
וזאת התורה##אשר שם##משה לפני##בני##ישראל ! And this is the low wich Moses set before the children of israel.! (Deut.4:44)
The dedicatory inscription on the lower facet sais:
באבאי בן יצחק נסים !Bahabai Ben Isac Nisym!