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 ...

The Huge Menorah, also called a hanukkiah, is a key symbol during Hanukkah. It’s celebrated as the Festival of Lights. This festival remembers the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after a ...

A block weighing several tons was carved out by a professional team and trucked over to the synagogue’s yard, where a sculptor quickly shaped it into the nine-branched menorah. But the ice was ...

With the lighting of nine candles on a menorah ... that destroyed all but one of the oils used to light the menorah — or seven-branch candelabrum. That single oil was able to provide the ...

One of the menorah’s branches was labeled “cross” while ... Although the table held an electric menorah with nine candles, the menorah in a photo placed on the table wasn’t the one used ...

The most famous symbol of Hanukkah is the hanukkiah, the nine-branched candelabra ... Within the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was a menorah, a candelabra with seven branches. It’s one of the oldest ...

Each night of Hanukkah, Jews light this hanukkiah, as a nine-branched menorah is called, beginning with one candle and adding a candle each night until the entire candelabra is ablaze. Ideas about ...

The menorah is a candelabrum with nine branches, one for for each of the eight days of Hanukkah and the shamash, the ninth and centermost candle of the menorah used to light the other candles.