Lighting the Menorah: How to Study Torah - Behaalotecha
Long before the Maccabees, there was the original menorah that was lit in the Holy Temple as part of the daily ritual officiated by the priests. How was the menorah lit? What purpose did it serve?
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"Kindling"` Rabbi Kaplan- Be aware that candles are a mediaevali nvenvtion. that the neiroth in the mishkan and in the beis hamiqdash were clay
"dishes' that were elevated into position on the terminals of the menorah, after having been refueled.