Footnote 1 – Was There a Seven-Branched Lampstand in Solomon’s Temple?

This is true despite the Talmudic injunction expressly forbidding all imitations of the Temple and its sacred artifacts:

A man may not make a house after the design of the Temple, or a porch after the design of the Temple-porth, a courtyard after the design of the Temple-court, a table after the design of the table [in the Temple], or a candelabrum after the design of its candelabrum (Menahot 28b; Abodah Zarah 43a; Rosh Hashonah 24 a, b).

However, this injunction may be directed at the production of functional cultic objects rather than at artistic or decorative renderings—or at least it was so interpreted.