A yad (Hebrew: ืื, romanized: yad; Yiddish: ืืึทื ื, romanized: hant, lit.โ'hand') is a Jewish ritual pointer, or stylus, popularly known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. It is often shaped like a long rod, capped by a small hand with its index finger pointing from...
