yad

American  

[yahd, yawd] / yɑd, yɔd /

noun

Hebrew.

plural

yadim

1. a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker.

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yad British  

/ jɑd /

noun

1. Judaism a hand-held pointer used for reading the sefer torah

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Etymology

Origin of yad

yādh literally, hand

Example Sentences

From the door, I see Father chanting from the Torah, being careful not to touch the Hebrew words with his fingers, since the silver yad, the pointer, was stolen in Toledo.

From Literature

Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem have “huge, large collections,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal

Daniel Peretz, who emigrated from South Africa to Israel when he was 13 and lived in the central town of Yad Binyamin, was a captain in the IDF's 7th Armoured Brigade.

From BBC

Bardella had earlier visited some of the places where Hamas carried out attacks on 7 October 2023, and Israel's Holocaust memorial institute Yad Vashem.

From BBC

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, was especially moving to Steinberg.

From Slate