Re: Hanukkah, menorah (fwd)

[Rebecca Endlich <endlichr@edmonds.wednet.edu>]

Many of you helped me sort the information I had. The only thing I can add
to this is that "shamash" seems to be the Yiddish term and "shammes" is
the same word in Hebrew.

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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 96 18:57:23 PST
From: rpn@netvision.net.il
To: Rebecca Endlich <endlichr@EDMONDS.WEDNET.EDU>
Subject: RE: Hanukkah, menorah

hello Becky, I think we corresponded before, but I saw your
message re the menorah so I thought I'd send along my
two-bits. I tried to reply to the person asking but at that
moment my messages were not going through and it all got
lost. Anyway, I quite agree with your husbands explanation. A
Hannukiah is simply a special type of menorah and the word
has not been properly taught in the U.S. Menorah is the
generic and Hannukiah is the specific. But more than that,
the Menorah which is one of the symbols of Judaism and Israel
is indeed 6 candles, with the central seventh representing
the Shabbat. It is not the Shamash, as the helper on the
Hannukiah is called. In former times there were some menorot
without the seventh, because the orthodox would not light a
candle on the shabbat. Enjoy the vacation!
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Name: reina n
E-mail: rpn@netvision.net.il
Date: 12/15/96
Time: 18:57:23

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