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PHOTO BY AVI GANOR

Benedictine monk, artist and architect Fray Juan Ricci (1600-
1681) created this undated sketch of the Temple menorah as
described in Exodus: "Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer
out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and
blossoms of one piece with them. Six branches are to extend
from the sides of the lampstand — three on one side and three on
the other. Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and
blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and
the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand. And
on the lampstand are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers
with buds and blossoms. One bud shall be under the first pair of
branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the
second pair, and a third bud under the third pair — six branches
in all. The buds and branches shall be all of one piece with the
lampstand, hammered out of pure gold."

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This triangular cast-
bronze Chanukah lamp
dates to the 15th-16th
century and was made in
Northern Italy or France.
The inscription in Hebrew
translates to: "For the
commandment is a lamp,
and the teaching [Torah]
is light," from Proverbs
6:23. The lamp is in the
Stieglitz Collection at
the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem.

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A silver Chanukah
lamp, circa 1760s,
was made by
I. Leschorn in
Frankfurt, Germany,
at Moriah Galleries.

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December 4 • 2014