yad 
(yäd, yôd)
(yäd, yôd)n. pl. ya·dim (yä-dēm, yôdĭm)
Judaism
Judaism
An ornamented pointer used to mark one's place when reading out loud from a scroll of the Torah in a synagogue.
[Mishnaic Hebrew yād, from Hebrew, hand; see yd in the Appendix of Semitic roots.]
yad