Re: menorah--
From perky chick <sbc...@wam.umd.edu>
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· 26 Sep 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Arjan Kenter (ken...@cs.utwente.nl) wrote: : In article <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) writes: : |> In article <60e9n5$cqc$2...@pandora.cs.utwente.nl>, ken...@cs.utwente.nl : |> (Arjan Kenter) writes: : |> >This is great, Joan! But isn't this a chanukiah? : |> >As far as I know, a menorah has seven arms.. but I may be : |> >mistaken. : Neither am I, The point is, the candlestick with eight arms and a sidekick : is used in chanukah (well, you knew that, obviously) but maybe it can : also be called a menorah, as a more general term. I didn't think of : this possibility when I wrote my follow-up. I hope my rantings don't : disturb you.. :-) ok, it reallly does not matter in this newsgroup what you call it. If you want to argue, go to soc.jew or something. anyhow, a menorah is just a candelabra. When you speak of a menora and you know any hebrew, you refer to the 7 branched thing used as the symbol for israel. If you had no knowledge of judiaism at all, you would refer to the chanukiah as a menorah. --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,43b05dbc107ff24 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: sbc...@wam.umd.edu (perky chick) Subject: Re: menorah-- Date: 1997/09/26 Message-ID: <60f3gn$kv...@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 275887341 Distribution: world References: <60e9n5$cqc$2...@pandora.cs.utwente.nl> <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com> <60em4g$h8f$2...@pandora.cs.utwente.nl> Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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