Great Synagogue (Slonim, Belarus)

This Torah curtain was donated to the Altneuschul (Staranova Synagogue) in Prague in 1602 by Natan ben Issachar (called Karpel Zaks), and Hadassi bat Moses, who commissioned it, as attested to by its…

Kneeling figure praying, Hazor, first half of eighth century BCE. Raised hands are a gesture of prayer. This is on a seal impression stamped on the rim of a krater. 

City gate, Gezer, Early Iron Age (1200–980 BCE). This gatehouse complex had benches for participants in legal procedures and other public affairs. In the book of Ruth, Boaz goes to the city gate in…