How To Use Menorah In A Sentence
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If Joshua remembered his history correctly, only one small jar of undefiled oil could be found for the Temple's menorah.
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If a menorah is a secular symbol, why is it used in celebrations of Hannukah?
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Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, lasts eight days, and each evening, an additional candle is lit on the Menorah.
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Sir Timothy said he believes that the rendering is of a seven-branched candelabrum in the form of a menorah and that the drawing which indicates the completed object was to be at least 6ft tall relates to the Medici tombs project.
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So next to include everyone the Jewish menorah is donated.
Sound Politics: Oy Vey! That "War On Christmas!"
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If you go to Rome today you can visit Titus' Triumphal Arch which bears the engraved image of the Menorah from the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem being carried victoriously into Rome.
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Of course, there is the more familiar story in the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat 21b, telling us of the priests entering the Temple precincts and finding but one cruse of holy oil marked with the seal of the High Priest and miraculous eight-day flame in the menorah.
Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: Hanukkah: Not Quite The Jewish Christmas
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SCOTUS has ruled in Allegheny that a menorah displayed along side a Christmas tree can be a "symbol of the holiday season" rather than a religious symbol.
Sound Politics: "Christmas trees are going back up at Sea-Tac airport."
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As we enter the house with the mezuzah on one side and the Chanukah menorah on the other, there is no mistaking the Jewish focus of the home.
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When I was a child, my truth about Hanukkah was that, as the only Jewish kid in my class, Hanukkah meant that my mom would bake shortbread cookies in shapes of menorahs and dreidels and put colored sprinkles on them and bring them to school for my classmates while she explained the story of the Maccabees and handed out dreidels and chocolate gelt.
Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah
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Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Menorah Medical Center, in Overland Park, Kan., had the best performance, with no infections in nearly 7,000 central line days.
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This is like protesting the menorah because it excludes the innumerate.
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Sometimes a menorah is displayed in order to make a Nativity scene "balanced", especially when secular symbols such as Santa Claus, reindeer and a holiday tree are added.
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Even though my menorah is dedicated to the latke, the symbolic fried food that I make for chanukah comes from my Hungarian roots: langos.
Vivian Reiss: Happy Hanukkah: the Latke Mobile Menorah
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Along these lines, John (aka Johannes) Urzidil, in a 1948 review of Stifter's Abdias that appeared in The Menorah Journal, writes about Stifter's universalism:
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As part of the celebrations a menorah was lit and although there was only enough oil to light the menorah for a day, it stayed alight for eight days.
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In the Bible the word "ner" (נר) -- candle or light, embodied, of course, in the word Menorah (מנורה) -- is used metaphorically in many significant senses.
The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
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A Hanukkah menorah most certainly does not "universalize" a Christmas tree; if anything, the opposite is true: it turns the tree, which symbolizes a holiday whose message is "joy to the world and peace on Earth" into a particularist symbol like the menorah itself.
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By the way, If a menorah is ever called a holiday candelabra, I will take back everything I ever said about just Christmas being censored.
Think Progress » President Bush’s War on Christmas
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In music or poetry, one thinks of an octave, in Jewish ritual, a menorah with eight branches.
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Students of another local Jewish institution, Chabad Hebrew School in Blue Ash, will be building their menorah out of chocolate coins, known as gelt, on Sunday morning.
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It's not Chanukah, when the world's largest menorah is lit on 59th and Fifth Avenue, nor is it the solemn, breast-beating repentance of Yom Kippur which hangs over the city like bad breath.
Angela Himsel: Like Honey and Milk Under Your Tongue
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There's also a special menorah celebrating those principles, called a kinara.
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A scholar from Chelm who finds a hayfork in the road is likely to conclude it's a giant's menorah.
The Man Who Left Chelm
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Of the thirty-three Hanukkah cards, twenty-six, or 79 percent, feature a Star of David or Menorah.
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Every night, Father would light the Menorah and let it burn itself out.
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If you've ever been inside a Judaica store, you know from which I speak -- monstrous menorahs, krass kiddish cups and flashy door mezuzahs with motion detectors.
Rich Siegel: Are Jew Kidding?
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Ritual Jewish art includes beautifully crafted menorahs, wine cups, candlesticks, tallilot (prayer shawls), and other ceremonial objects.
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The seven-candle menorah is a symbol of that holiday.
Sound Politics: Oy Vey! That "War On Christmas!"
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When I first became interested in Judaism a few months back, I had planned on buying all my Jewish kit in Haifa - a kippah, mezuzahs, Chanukah menorah, dreidels, tallit, Seder plate, and lots of holy books to study from.
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Staff at Turton High School's Media Arts College have put on display religious objects ranging from a Jewish menorah candlestick to Hindu figurines.
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This six-pointed star, made of two interlocking triangles, can be found on mezuzahs, menorahs, tallis bags, and kipot.
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Jersey City argued in federal district (that is, trial) court that the display complied with the Constitution (as interpreted in a number of Supreme Court decisions) because the sleigh and the Santa Claus and the Frosty the Snowman and the Kwanzaa ribbons that it added to the creche and the menorah "demystified" thtose two religious symbols -- that is, drained them of their religious meaning.
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As we enter the house with the mezuzah on one side and the Chanukah menorah on the other, there is no mistaking the Jewish focus of the home.
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Cook emphasizes that the three traditional commandments for women (M Shabbat 2: 6) have an additional meaning: niddah allows women to become arbiters of their ritual status (paralleling priestly function); hallah (separating the dough) parallels the priest; candle-lighting parallels the menorah in the temple.
Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.
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The word menorah just refers to the traditional seven-branched candleholder used throughout the year.
Lights, Action, Hanukkah -- Chanukah or Hanukkah Guide Part 4
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The menorah is used in Jewish relgious observations during hannukah.
Sound Politics: "Christmas trees are going back up at Sea-Tac airport."
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You know, like it might be the day that you sing “Happy Holiday to You,” blow out the menorahs on a pumpkin pie, exchange boxes of gelt, and then play spin the tail on the dreidl until midnight when three wise snowmen riding on a red-nosed reindeer fling Champagne bottles full of flaming frankincense and myrrh at your front door.
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Also gone were all the writings in Hebrew (except medical texts) and all objects utilized in Jewish rituals, such as menorahs, mezuzahs, mizrahs, shofars, ceremonial knives used for circumcision, Torah covers and talliths.
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His sticking in the word menorah gave me no comfort as an American Jew because when people are excluded for religion, Jews are usually among the first to be excluded.
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There they found that they could light the Menorah for only one day, due to a lack of undefiled oil.
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A large menorah stands before the Washington Monument in honor of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights.
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The night of the 22nd is our Hanukkah party at the White House, where we light the Menorah.
