The most famous preserved representation of the menorah of the Temple was depicted in a frieze on the Arch of Titus, commemorating his triumphal parade in Rome following the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD. Ibn Ezra) who express an opinion on the subject state that the arms were round. The branches are often artistically depicted as semicircular, but Rashi, (according to some contemporary readings) and Maimonides (in a sketch commented on by his son Avraham), held that they were straight all other Jewish authorities, both classical (e.g.

The historian Josephus, who witnessed the Temple's destruction, says that the menorah was actually situated obliquely, to the east and south. Although the menorah was placed in the antechamber of the Temple sanctuary, over against its southernmost wall, the Talmud ( Menahot 98b) brings down a dispute between two scholars on whether or not the menorah was situated north to south, or east to west. In the Oral Torah, the menorah stood 18 handbreadths/palms (three common cubits) high, or approximately 1.62 metres (5.3 ft). Numbers, chapter 8, adds that the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand and reiterates that the lampstand was made in accordance with the pattern shown to Moses on the mountain. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.ģ2Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand-three on one side and three on the other.ģ3Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.ģ4And on the lampstand are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.ģ5One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair-six branches in all.ģ6The buds and branches shall be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.ģ7Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.ģ8Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.ģ9A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories.Ĥ0See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain. The Hebrew Bible states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses and describes the construction of the menorah as follows: ģ1Make a lampstand of pure gold.

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