Menorah (Hanukkah)

The Hanukkah menorah (Hebrew: מנורה menorah) (also Hebrew: חַנֻכִּיָּה‎ hanukiah, or chanukkiyah, pl. hanukiyot/chanukkiyot, or Yiddish: חנוכּה לאמפּ khanike lomp, lit.: Hanukkah lamp) is, strictly speaking, a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah, as opposed to the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple or as a symbol. The ninth holder, called the shamash ("helper or servant"), is for a candle used to light all other candles. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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The World's Largest Hanukkah Menorah

Lighting of the World's Largest Hanukkah Menorah. 32-foot-tall, two tons. The nightly lighting ceremonies is accompanied by folk dancing and sufganiyot (holiday jelly doughnuts). Grand Lighting Ceremony is Friday, December 11, 2009 at about 4PM. The celebration continues at the same time each night of Hanukkah. Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Hanukkah Menorah Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan

Hanukkah Menorah Chabad Lubavitch. Hanukkah Menorah of ice sculpture in front of Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan at 509 5th Avenue, New York City, Rabbi Yehoshua Metzger, Co-director. Measuring about 5 by 5 feet, taken on December 23, 2008. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Hanukkah Menorah

Hanukkah Menorah, a special candelabrum, the Menorah lit for the Festival of Lights, an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Starting on the 25th day of Kislev of the Hebrew calendar, and may fall from late November to late December on the Gregorian calendar.

One light on each night, progressing to eight on the final night. An extra light called a shamash (Hebrew: "guard" or "servant") is lit each night, and is given a distinct location, usually higher or lower than the others. The purpose of the extra light is to adhere to the prohibition, specified in the Talmud (Tracate Shabbat 21b–23a), against using the Hanukkah lights for anything other than publicizing and meditating on the Hanukkah story.

(The shamash is used to light the other lights.) As such, if one were to read from the lights – something prohibited – then it's not clear whether the light one's reading from was from the Hanukkah lights or the shamash light. So the shamash acts as a safeguard from accidental transgression.

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Festival of lights. HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Members of the Hanscom Jewish community gather together to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah Dec. 5. Rabbi Abraham Morhaim lights the Hanscom menorah. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mark Wyatt). High Resolution Image

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Historic Chanukkah menorot VIDEO

Various menorot used for Hanukkah (Hanukiot). Taken from the 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, now in the public domain. The locations of the hanukiot given below reflect their locations as of the publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia and not their present locations. Menorah "Lighting Guide VIDEO - Discover the importance of the menorah and how, when and where to light it. (4:34)

* 1. Bronze, French, attributed to 12th cent. (in the Musée de Cluny, Paris).
* 2. Yellow copper, modern (in the synagogue at Pogrebishche, Russia).
* 3. Silver (?), medieval (in the possession of Dr. Albert Figdor, Vienna).
* 4. Yellow copper, modern (in the synagogue at Padua, Italy).
* 5. Silver and bronze, 17th cent. (in the possession of Jacob H. Schiff. New York).
* 6. Silver, late 19th century (from the collection of the late Rabbi Benjamin Szold, Baltimore).
* 7. Bronze, Italian, 15th cent. (in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
* 8. Silver, English (?), 16th cent. (in the possession of E. A. Franklin, London).
* 9. Silver, Nuremberg, 17th cent. (in the possession of N. S. Joseph, London).
* 10. Silver, modern (in the possession of Maurice Herrmann, New York).

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Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office, evidently receiving a Menorah as a gift from the Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion (center), and Abba Eban, the Ambassador of Israel to the United States., 05/08/1951

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David Ben-Gurion (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן‎, born David Grün on 16 October 1886, died 1 December 1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, culminated in his instrumental role in the founding of the state of Israel. After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions and oversaw the absorption of vast numbers of Jews from all over the world. Upon retiring from political life in 1970, he moved to Sde Boker, where he lived until his death. Posthumously, Ben-Gurion was named one of Time Magazine 's 100 Most Important People of the Century.

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Abba Eban From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Abba Eban (Hebrew: אבא אבן‎, born Aubrey Solomon Meir on 2 February 1915, died 17 November 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician.

In 1988, after three decades in the Knesset, he lost his seat over internal splits in the Labour Party. He devoted the rest of his life to writing and teaching, including serving as a visiting academic at Princeton University, Columbia University and The George Washington University. He also narrated television documentaries including Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (PBS, 1984), for which he was host, Israel, A Nation Is Born (1992), and On the Brink of Peace (PBS, 1997).

In 2001, Eban received the Israel Prize, his country's highest honor. He died in 2002 and was buried in Kfar Shmaryahu, north of Tel Aviv.

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Harry S. Truman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953). As vice president, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

During World War I he served as an artillery officer. After the war he became part of the political machine of Tom Pendergast and was elected a county judge in Missouri and eventually a United States Senator. In 1944, Roosevelt replaced Henry A. Wallace as vice president with Truman for Roosevelt's fourth term.

As president, Truman faced challenge after challenge in domestic affairs: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto.

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A dreidel (Hebrew: סביבון, Sevivon) is a four-sided top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is used for a gambling game similar to Teetotum.

Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (Nun), ג (Gimel), ה (Hei), ש (Shin), which together form the acronym for "נס גדול היה שם" (Nes Gadol Haya Sham – "a great miracle happened there"). These letters also form a mnemonic for the rules of a gambling game played with a dreidel: Nun stands for the Yiddish word "nit" ('nothing'), hei stands for "halb" ('half'), gimel for "gants" ('all'), and shin for "shteln" ('put'). In Israel, instead of ש (Shin), the letter פ (Pe) is written to symbolize the location of the miracle — "פה" (Po – "here").

The Yiddish word "dreydl" comes from the word "dreyen" ("to turn"). The Hebrew word "sevivon" comes also from the root "sov" ("turn") and was invented by Itamar Ben-Avi (the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) when he was 5 years old. Before that, different terms were used by Hayyim Nahman Bialik in his poems. [citation needed] While the only mandated mitzvot for Chanukah consist of lighting candles and saying the full hallel, there are numerous other customs that have come to be associated with Chanukah.

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The first night we light the light at the far right of the Menorah. The second night we add a new light to the left, the third night we add another light to the left of the first two, and so on, each night.

After making the blessings, we light the leftmost light first, and then travel to the right, lighting as we go. So, on the eighth night, we place one candle (or oil and wick) in the holder at the right, then we place another one in the next holder, and keep on going to the left. Then we recite the blessings, and light the lights from left to right. So, the first one we prepare in the Menorah is the last one we light. Lighting the Menorah

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MEDIUM: 1 drawing : watercolor, ink; mount size 7.5 x 10.5 in. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [between 1950 and 1990] CREATOR: J. & R. Lamb Studios, designer.

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On the 25th of Kislev are the days of Chanukkah, which are eight... these were appointed a Festival with Hallel [prayers of praise] and thanksgiving. -Shabbat 21b, Babylonian Talmud Chanukkah

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One of the oldest symbols of the Jewish faith is the menorah, a seven-branched candelabrum used in the Temple. The kohanim lit the menorah in the Sanctuary every evening and cleaned it out every morning, replacing the wicks and putting fresh olive oil into the cups. encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture

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'Chanucka' grand march

"Chanucka" grand march / by A. J. Davis. Davis, A. J.. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York: Pond & Co., Wm. A., 1883. RELATED TITLES Music for a nation: American sheet music, 1870-1885. MEDIUM 1 score, CALL NUMBER, M2.3.U6A44, PART OFAmerican 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1870-1885

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TITLE: New York City--the Chanucka celebration by the Young Men's Hebrew Association, at the Academy of Music, December 16th--scene of the sixth tableau, "the dedication of the temple" CALL NUMBER: Illus. in AP2.L52 Case Y [P and P]

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Hanukkah Menorah Lighting

President George W. Bush watches as Daniella Wald, 12, lights one of the candles on the Menorah Wednesday, Dec 4 in the White House. President Bush presented one of the lighted candles to Daniella Wald, who lit the first three candles,

and she presented the lighter candle to her sister, Alexandra Wald, 15, who lit the other three. Both of the girls are from Manhattan, and their father, Victor Wald, was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. White House photo by Paul Morse.

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