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The menorah has seven branches, symbolizing those used only in ... Hanukkah is now celebrated by lighting candles on a nine-branched menorah, but the seven-branched menorah depicted on the lamp ...

During Hanukkah Jews light a nine-branched candelabra ... so the tradition arose for the Hanukkah menorah to have eight branches, plus a ninth lamp in the middle which is used to light the others.

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 ...

The menorah is made up of nine separate hot air balloons that combine ... which is the one that you light the other (branches of the menorah) with, so that one's a little higher," said Rabbi ...

Hanukkah means "dedication" in Hebrew. It's usually in December, but the dates change every year since Judaism follows a lunar calendar. The national menorah lit in Washington, DC, is 30 feet tall ...

The most important ritual of Hanukkah is the lighting of the menorah, or hanukkiah, which has nine branches: eight for each night of the festival and one for the shammash (helper candle).

A Menorah, or Chanukiah, has nine branches, eight of which represent the eight nights of Hanukkah. The candelabra also pays a tribute to the Menorah inside the ancient Temple of Jerusalem ...

The unusual lamp is decorated with imagery related to the services in the Jewish Second Temple in Jerusalem, including a Temple menorah (which had seven branches, unlike the nine-branched menorahs ...

Five Chabad rabbis erected the first public menorah in Philadelphia in 1974. Now, 50 years later, there are roughly 15,000 giant menorahs lit annually in public squares from Washington, D.C., Chabad’s ...

Each night during the holiday, families light one candle on a menorah, a special candelabrum with nine branches (eight for each night and one for the shamash or helper candle) until all are lit on ...

The menorah holds nine candles, one of which is the shamash ... The special menorah used for Hanukkah has eight branches, with a ninth place for the candle called shamash from which all others ...