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Page 8 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 19, 1986
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A silver Hanuka menorah in the form of a traveling trunk shown from the front and below. The
Hebrew inscription on the underside of the trunk (top right) confirms that this lamp was used by Rabbi
Levy Isaac of Berdichev, on his travels.
The menorah was recently sold for $140,000 at an auction of the Society of Judaica C ollectors in
Jerusalem.
Menorah
by Dvora Waysman
WotId Zionist Press Serxiee
It is winter in Jerusalem. In the
Hebrew month of Kislev, which
usually falls in late December,
tiny candles are burning in nine-
branched candelabras on balco
nies and window ledges through
out the city as Jews everywhere
celebrate Hanuka. They are com
memorating the victory of the
Maccabees over the Seleucid
empire and the purification of
the Temple in the year 165 BCE.
Alter the destruction of the
Second Temple, it was prohibited
to make replicas of the Temple's
seven-branched menorah. Thus
me norot today have eight
: biblical,
branches plus the shamas.
The first menorah. the one in
the Tabernacle created in the
Sinai wilderness, is explicitly
described in two places in Ex
odus—chapters 25:31-38 and
37:17-24. We are told that Bezalel,
the craftsman who made all the
vessels for the Tabernacle, made
the menorah of pure gold. The
stem and branches were of beaten
work, and its calyxes, knobs and
flowers were of one piece. There
weresix branchesstemmingfrom
its sides, and each branch bore
almond-shaped calyxes with knob
and flower.
The description makes strik
ing use of botanical terms. The
late Hannah and Ephraim Hareu-
botanical
veni. the founders of the Museum
of Biblical and Talmudic Botany
at the Hebrew University on
Mount Scopus, which was tragi
cally destroyed in the War of
Independence, set out to search
the fields of Israel for plants
whose shape was reflected in the
biblical description of the
menorah. They found, from the
Sinai desert to the mountains of
Lebanon, several species of a
fragrant plant w ith the shape and
characteristics of the biblical
menorah. These fall into the genus
salvia, a member of the sage fam
ily, in Hebrew, Moriah. It has
branches stemmingfrom its sides:
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