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I used to use my Chef's torch to clean my menorah, but found something easier, a corn cob stabber, it's two prongs grab the melted wax and it comes out of the little hole very easy.
All decorations and no in-person family.
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The historic Katowitz Menorah on display at City Hall is over 150 years old. Designed by a 19th Century Italian artist, it resided in Poland's Great Katowitz Synagogue until the onset of World War II when the synagogue was destroyed during the Nazi invasion. The menorah is the last remaining objet d'art rescued from the destruction. It was hidden underground before being gifted to Los Angeles Chabad.
My daughter sent me this photo.
The strangest thing happened. My daughter took Chloe shopping. These two Menorah's caught her attention and she made such a fuss my daughter bought them for her. Normally kids would do this in the toy department. We are scratching our heads over this one.
Today, 9 August, is the feast of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Known as Edith Stein before she became a Carmelite nun, today's saint was a Jewess and philosopher, who converted to Christianity, and was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz because of her Jewish heritage.
Robert Wagner's powerful image, Menorah is a fitting image for today's feast day. With his talent for placing Biblical scenes in modern landscapes, Wagner's painting (completed in 1993) evokes the cremetoria chimneys of Auschwitz, the Jewish menorah, and the sacrifice of Christ – himself a Jew – for and with his people. As St Teresa Benedicta said: "I understood the cross as the destiny of God's people".
In the catalogue for a 2010 exhibition of Wagner's work in the Ashmolean Museum, Christopher Miller wrote: "The Jewish Christians at the foot of the cross lament the loss of all their hope; the intervention of God in their lives is apparently annihilated in Christ's death. The smoke that the Jews watch sweeping up into the clouds evokes the ashes carried by the wind over the bleak Polish plains. And a parallel is established. We are in the presence of the cross, but the six cooling towers and the central chimney make up the seven branches of the menorah, the ritual candlestick which defines the holiness of the Jewish holy place and thus marks the presence of God. For Jews and Christians alike, the face of desolation wears another aspect, that of the presence and providence of God."
For more on this and other examples of Wagner's work, visit this site.
The menorah (/məˈnɔːrə/; Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה [menoˈʁa]) is described in the Bible as the seven-lamp (six branches) ancient Hebrew lampstand made of pure gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Fresh olive oil was burned daily to light its lamps. The menorah has been a symbol of Judaism since ancient times and is the emblem on the coat of arms of the modern state of Israel.
The Hebrew Bible states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses and describes the construction of the menorah as follows (Exodus 25:31–40):
The branches are often artistically depicted as semicircular, but Rashi, (according to some contemporary readings) and Maimonides (according to his son Avraham), held that they were straight; all other Jewish authorities, both classical (e.g. Philo and Josephus) and medieval (e.g. Ibn Ezra) who express an opinion on the subject state that the arms were round. Archaeological evidence, including depictions by artists who had seen the menorah, indicates that they were not straight, but show them as rounded, either semicircular or elliptical.
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 CE. In that frieze, the menorah is shown resting upon a hexagonal base, which in turn rests upon a slightly larger but concentric and identically shaped base; a stepwise appearance on all sides is thus produced. Each facet of the hexagonal base was made with two vertical stiles and two horizontal rails, a top rail and a bottom rail, resembling a protruding frame set against a sunken panel. These panels have some relief design set or sculpted within them. The panels depict the Ziz and the Leviathan from Jewish mythology.
In 2009, the ruins of a synagogue with pottery dating from before the destruction of the Second Temple were discovered under land in Magdala owned by the Legionaries of Christ, who had intended to construct a center for women's studies. Inside that synagogue's ruins was discovered a rectangular stone, which had on its surface, among other ornate carvings, a depiction of the seven-lamp menorah differing markedly from the depiction on the Arch of Titus, which could possibly have been carved by an eyewitness to the actual menorah present at the time in the Temple at Jerusalem. This menorah has arms which are polygonal, not rounded, and the base is not graduated but triangular. It is notable, however, that this artifact was found a significant distance from Jerusalem and the Arch of Titus has often been interpreted as an eyewitness account of the original menorah being looted from the temple in Jerusalem.
Representations of the seven lamp artifact have been found on tombs and monuments dating from the 1st century as a frequently used symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people.
Contrary to some modern designs, the ancient menorah burned oil and did not contain anything resembling candles, which were unknown in the Middle East until about 400 CE (Wikipedia).
I made this Lego Menorah using the yellow column pieces from the Aquanats series. I'm surprised I had enough on hand to do it
Not everyone celebrates Christmas. Made 12/04/22, today, to send to members of my collage group. Watercolor & pen and ink, & colored pencils.
Nanami-chan ("Hannukah-chan") enjoyed all "eight crazy nights" of her first Hannukah. I don't think Adam Sandler has her listed yet in his latest Hannukah Song version though.
The seven lamps allude to the branches of human knowledge, represented by the six lamps inclined inwards towards, and symbolically guided by, the light of God represented by the central lamp. The menorah also symbolizes the creation in seven days, with the center light representing the Sabbath.
The seven-branched menorah was originally found in the wilderness sanctuary and then later in the Temple in Jerusalem and was a popular motif of religious art in antiquity.
Today I worked on this little digital drawing again. I started drawing this menorah using the Brushes app on my iPad, but for the past few days have been revising it on my desktop, in Painter. Tonight I changed the shape of the menorah's base so it would look flat, like the rest of the menorah. I did a little more cleanup, and here it is.
Why would anyone leave a menorah at a community garden over winter. I will have to go back when the garden is cleared for planting and see the new treasures.
Image made with my Mamiya 7II on Kodak Portra 400 film.
my sister just got back from 8 months in Israel. She brought home beautiful menorahs for all of us. Yet another reason to look forward to Hanukkah! Thanks Sis!
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Carina's uncle brought a few menorahs with him, as we celebrated the last night of Hanukkah at our house.
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In exactly 100 days I will be finished! Yay! There's an end in sight! :P
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