Yeshiva University Museum exhibition to feature hand-drawn menorah illustration from a manuscript that contains notes by Moses Maimonides.

What You May Not Know About The Menorah. By. Rabbi Ari Enkin - 17 Sivan 5782 – June 16, 2022. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

This is based on a ruling by the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who in turn based his stance on a drawing by the renowned 12th-century Jewish scholar Maimonides (Rambam).

"The menorah was designed according to a hand drawing by Maimonides based on the original Menorah in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem and is the largest size permitted by Halacha-Jewish law." ...

Abraham, the son of Maimonides, wrote the following about his father’s innovation: “The six branches extend from the central shaft of the menorah to its height in a straight line as depicted ...

Chanukah Scheduling Conflicts: The Time Frame For Lighting Menorah. By. Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman - 28 Kislev 5779 – December 6, 2018. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

Mayor Eric Adams will be on hand Monday night to help light the world's largest menorah. Adams will help light the 36-foot-tall menorah during a ceremony on the fifth night of Hanukkah.

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, known as the Rambam, perhaps the most prolific scholar of all time, who lived in Spain and Egypt in the twelfth century, draws a diagram of the menorah in his Commentary to ...

In the case of the menorah at Manhattan’s Grand Army Plaza, the shamash brings the total height to thirty-six feet. The Lubavitch menorah was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2006.

made by Maimonides, Chabad’s menorah’s branches are not curved — but straight. In “Straightening Out the Menorah,” Jewish Review of Books, 12/25/34, Reviel Netz writes: ...