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Candles and
Candle Sticks
from Israel
by DAVID BENJAMIN
From Bangor, Maine, and Boston
to Los Angeles and San Francisco
and all the way in between, wher
ever in a Jewish household the
little Hanukah candle is kindled,
the chances are that it will be an
Israeli make. A little light from
Israel will penetrate hundreds of
thousands of Jewish homes here.
According to the Statistics De
partment of the Israel Bond Or
ganization, candles and Menorahs
have become a substantial item of
Israeli exports. It is estimated that
70 per cent of the Hanukah candles
in use in the United States will be
of Israeli make.
Some of this may be due to sen
timental reasons associated with
religion, but basically, according to
the dealers, practical reasons ac
count for the increasing popularity
of the Israeli candle. It is a better
Hanukah candle.
Tradition has it that when Judas
Maccabeus reentered the Temple,
he found only enough oil for one
day, but it miraculously lasted for
eight and so for eight nights we
kindle the Hanukah candles. The
present Israeli Hanukah candles
have no such miraculous potency,
but they burn longer than the
ordinary candle. It is made to burn
slower.
Place a row of eight candles
burning together, said one dealer,
and the heat of one will accelerate
the burning of the others. They
will melt very fast, and so burning
slow as the Israeli candle does, is
an important consideration.
Also, the dealer added, the Is
raeli candles are dripless and got
ten up more colorfully. The buyer
will have to pay a few cents more,
but Hanukah comes only once a
year.
The greater attractiveness also
accounts for the great increase in
the sale of Israeli Menorahs in the
US. Some years back, shortly
after the creation of the Jewish
State, and the Negeb was first
beginning to be explored, many
looked despairingly at the great
stretches of its sand. What could
be done with this sand? it was
asked.
An Israel Bond leader picked up
a handful of sand and said “Israel
may find gold in these sands.”
The manufacture of Menorahs
from these sands is proving the
truth of this prediction. The sands
are being used in the ceramic in
dustries.
Dealers say the Israeli manufac
turers put “more imagination” into
making of the Menorahs. Many of
the Israeli manufacturers, abreast
of the development of modern art,
have introduced abstract and mo
dernistic designs appealing to the
art-loving as well as the religious.
There has been a substantial sale
of Israeli made Menorahs among
non-Jews. One very popular type
of Menorah has come to be known
as “The Baptist.”
It got its name a few years back
following a convention of Baptist
ministers in Baltimore, when one
of the ministers going shopping
bought an Israeli Menorah. His
colleagues saw it and one told the
other and now dealers commonly
speak of this particular type as
“The Baptist.”
The Menorah is probably the
oldest Jewish symbol. It apparent
ly antedates the Mogen David.
Long before King David, we are
told in Scripture that the Taber
nacle in the wilderness had a huge
Menorah. The Menorah in the
Temple of Jerusalem, according to
the Talmud, was made of gold and
was six feet high. When Titus con
quered Jerusalem, he took the
Menorah with him and was so
proud of his trophy, that on the
arch he had constructed in Rome,
celebrating the victory oyer the
Jews, he had engraved a picture of
Roman soldiers carrying the Men
orah.
What became of this Menorah?
Many have puzzled over this
question. It is said that the van
dals who sacked Rome, carried it
to Africa and that, in later wars,
it was carried back and deposited
in some crypt of a Christian church
and someday, it may be re-dis
covered.
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GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA
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