Rimon
- Inventory number:
- Мт-1332
- Author:
- Joseph Gross
- Creation Date:
- circa 1900
- Place of Creation:
- Poland, Krakow
- Provenance:
- Received from a private individual
- Technique:
- casting, repousse, engraving, soldering, punching, marking
- Size:
- 32 cm
- Diameter:
- 12
- Material:
- silver
- Type of object:
- Rimon
- Subject:
- Judaism
Rimon (singular of rimonim) means pomegranate fruit in Hebrew. Rimonim is a pair adornment-spearhead on the Torah scroll. The pomegranate symbolizes the virtues of a righteous Jew, which should be as numerous as the seeds in the fruit of the pomegranate. The rimonim crowned the coils on which the Torah scroll was wrapped, and which could be called "ets haim", that is, "tree of life", or "amud", the pillar. Thus, the coils remained of two pillars that stood at the entrance to the Temple of Jerusalem, and the rimonim - the decorations in the form of pomegranate fruits that crowned these columns.
