The Temple Menorah

The deeper meaning behind the different opinions in the Talmud and commentaries regarding the menorah’s spatial alignment inside the Temple, and regarding the identity of its miraculous “western lamp.”

By law, the menorah stood in a chamber into which only kohanim ("priests") were permitted entry. But the law also states that an ordinary person may light the menorah. What is the point -- and lesson -- of this legal paradox?

The menorah, its lamps, and the flames they hold are the very mirror of our identity as a people, the way we interact with each other, and of the elemental strivings of the human soul

The teacher has locked his door, the mentor has disappeared, and one's own soul has turned dark and cold. When no solution for the darkness is in sight, this can only mean one thing: the darkness itself is the solution

What was so difficult about the design of the Menorah that G-d, the greatest teacher of all time, could not make Moses, the greatest student of all time, comprehend?

The Zohar teaches mystical secrets about the Menorah in the Holy Temple

The power of Chanukah is drawn from a deep internal spiritual source

Chanuka teaches us to connect to G-d from a positive perspective.

"There are seventy facets of the Torah" say the Talmud. Here are three perspectives on the Menorah in the Holy Temple

A lesson from the seven-branched menorah: You don't have to be a carbon copy of somebody else to be a good Jew. The critical issue is, are you kindled?