✾ the turning

The samāʿ as a model: dervishes rotating on their own axes while orbiting the hall, right palm up to receive and left down to give. Press the hakafot and a gold ring runs beside the white one — seven circuits around the bimah with the Torah, seven around Jericho, the bride around the groom.

Motion, not architecture — stop it and there is nothing to see, and that is the doctrine. The only model on the bench whose content is entirely in its movement.