The menorah was initially found in the wilderness sanctuary and later in the Temple in Jerusalem ... Thus, it also looks like the tree of life. Oil filled the tops of the branches, which were ...

Both the menorah and the Temple’s showbread table, held to be a stand-in for the Ark of the Covenant, were “thought to be stored in the papal chapel, the Sanctum Sanctorum (‘Holy of Holies ...

The menorah in the Temple actually did evoke the image of a tree, with its branches ... Meira Raanan is the author of The Art of Revelation: A Visual Encounter with the Jewish Bible, a commentary ...