Menorah
Menorah is a candelabrum with seven candles that is displayed in Jewish synagogues. The original design for the menorah is in the Torah, and it was used in rituals in the tabernacle (portable sanctuary) and later the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, it has had no formal role in Jewish prayer services or rituals. The presence of a menorah in some synagogues is purely symbolic.The one exception to this concerns the Jewish festival of Chanukah, in which a nine-branched version of the menorah is used; this nine branched menorah is properly called a Chanukiah.
The Chanukkah menorah includes eight candles, one for each day the Oil burned, plus the "shammes" (in Yiddish) or "shamash" (in Hebrew), a "servant candle" that is used to light the others.
The fate of the original Menorah is obscure. A depiction is still available on the triump-arch of Titus, and it remained in Rome until its sack by the Vandals in 455 A.D., but the Byzantine army under General Belisarius took it back in the 6th century and brought it to Constantinople. Here, the trail ends. It isn't further mentioned in any Byzantine chronicles, and one can only speculate whether it remained there until the city was sacked or brought back to a church in Jerusalem - as was the case with the "True Cross", another relic recaptured in the Vandal campaign.
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