Footnote 4 – Lighting the Way Through History

The strict prohibition of making a replica of the menorah appears in the Babylonian Talmud (Menahot 28b; Rosh Hashana 24a): “A man may not make a house after the design of the Temple … or a menorah after that of the menorah (in the Temple). He may, however, make one with five, six or eight (branches) but with seven he may not make one.”