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From: sbcl@wam.umd.edu (perky chick)
Subject: Re: menorah--
Date: 1997/09/26
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Arjan Kenter (kenter@cs.utwente.nl) wrote:
: In article <19970925211301.RAA03840@ladder01.news.aol.com>, spunk1111@aol.com (Spunk1111) writes:
: |> In article <60e9n5$cqc$2@pandora.cs.utwente.nl>, kenter@cs.utwente.nl
: |> (Arjan Kenter) writes:
: |> >This is great, Joan! But isn't this a chanukiah? 
: |> >As far as I know, a menorah has seven arms.. but I may be
: |> >mistaken.
: Neither am I, The point is, the candlestick with eight arms and a sidekick
: is used in chanukah (well, you knew that, obviously) but maybe it can
: also be called a menorah, as a more general term. I didn't think of
: this possibility when I wrote my follow-up. I hope my rantings don't
: disturb you.. :-)
ok, it reallly does not matter in this newsgroup what you call it. If you
want to argue, go to soc.jew or something.
anyhow, a menorah is just a candelabra. When you speak of a menora and you
know any hebrew, you refer to the 7 branched thing used as the symbol for
israel. If you had no knowledge of judiaism at all, you would refer to
the chanukiah as a menorah.
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