A Hanukkah menorah, sometimes called a hanukkiah, has branches for nine candles—one for each night of the holiday, plus the shammash. According to Jewish law, the eight main branches must all be ...

Lernhertz provided two references to medieval images where the menorah has the nine branches, as required for Hanukkah. One is a 1470 manuscript housed at the Israel Museum that shows a figure ...

as well as the requirement that all eight branches are the same height, the material had to be friendly to an open flame (the same challenge that Australian workshop Rubble addressed with its concrete ...