To make up for my recent lack of attention to this blog, I’m posting thoughts about Chanukah for each day of the eight-day festival. Today, I’m talking about:
MENORAH
What do you call that thing you stick the candles into?
In the UK, where I grew up, we always called it a menorah. But that name is wrong and should be reserved for the seven-branched candelabrum that stood in Jerusalem’s Holy Temple.
In modern-day Jerusalem there’s a menorah, created by Benno Elkan (1877-1960) that depicts “29 formative events, figures and concepts from the Old Testament and the history of the Jewish People.”
In Israel, we stick the candles into a chanukia. It has nine branches, one of which is set apart from the rest. The candle on that branch is called the shamash and is used to light all the other candles.
Miriam Drori, Author 
4 replies on “Chanukah, Day 3”
It’s always good to learn about the history of objects and the cultures of others. Thank you for sharing
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Do you add a candle each day?
For the four Sundays before Christmas we have candles in an Advent wreath. All the candles (including one for Christmas Day) are there from the start, but one more candle is lit each week.
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