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The Menorah and the Hanukiya
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by BEA STADTLER called a minor holiday. It is im-
Hanuka is one of our happiest portant because the victory of
holidays, and perhaps one of the tht ‘ Maccabees is the victory of
most important, although it is tbe few over the many, and the
victory of religious freedom.
Simhat Torah, another happy
holiday, belongs to the syn
agogue; Purim usually is
celebrated in the streets with
parades and masquerades, and
in the synagogue for the reading
of the Megillah, but Hanuka is
celebrated mainly in the home.
The Hanuka lamp, sometimes
called the Menorah, but more
often the Hanukiya, was
different from the Menorah. The
Menorah was fashioned by the
biblical artist Bezalel, who could
be called a journeyman to the
Lord. Moses tells the children of
Israel that 'The Lord has called
Bezalel . . . and filled him with
the spirit of God in wisdom, in
understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship . . .”
The description of that
Menorah is very accurate. It was
made from "a talent of pure gold
. . ." There is no shilly shallying
around, that it might have look
ed this way or that. Exodus J7:
17-22, tells us: "And he made the
candlestick of pure gold; of
beaten work . . . even its base
and shaft; its cups and knobs,
and its flowers were of one piece
. . and there were six branches
going out of the sides; three on
one side and three on the other
side; three cups made like al
mond blossoms in one branch, a
knob and a flower; and three
cups made like almond blossoms
in the other branch, a knob and a
flower ...”
Symbolically, the Menorah
represents the .Jewish victory
of light over darkness, good
over evil, right over wrong,
justice over wickedness and
knowledge over ignorance.
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Some Talmudic sources say
this beautiful Menorah wrought
by Bezalel was placed in the
Temple of Solomon. In his sanc
tuary, he had ten candelsticks,
five on each side of the sanc
tuary, made of pure gold, with
Bezalel’s Menorah in the center.
The ten candlesticks were con
structed by Hiram, a skilled
brassworker from Tyre.
One source says these
Menorot, along with all the other
golden vessels in Solomon’s
Temple, were cut in pieces by the
Chaldeans who laid siege to
Jerusalem and entered the holy
city. Other sources tell us that
the Menorah and the other holy
vessels were hidden before the
destruction of the First Temple.
The Menorah does not re
appear until the Second Temple.
The Talmud gives us a very ac
curate description of this
Menorah, even indicating its size
— 72 inches high, 32 inches from
base to the section where the
branches begin to go out, 20 add
ed inches in the branches, which
were four inches thick and
separated from one another by
four-inch spaces, for a total of 52
inches. The remaining 20 inches
were a lengthening of the central
shaft in an interesting design
with three cups, three knobs and
three flowers.
This Menorah disappeared in ■
the year 70 CE when the :
Romans destroyed the Temple. ;
It is believed that it was carried •
to Rome by Titus with the other :
precious properties of the Tern- •
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