| In the Jewish tradition, the mitzvah of lighting the | | | | The original Holy Temple menorah stood five feet in |
| Hanukkah lamp of oil or even candles, is to be done at | | | | height and was a candelabra with seven branches |
| sunset. The Hanukkah lights are to be lit at sunset and | | | | extending up for holding the lights. It was completely |
| placed in the doorway of the home. If you live higher | | | | solid gold and on top there sat seven oil-burning lamps. |
| than ground level, the Hanukkah lights are to be lit and | | | | These seven lit lamps of individual flames were fueled |
| placed in the window facing out towards the entering | | | | with only the most premium of olive oils. The special |
| street area of your home. In the Torah, every lit lamp | | | | preparation of the olive oil to be as fuel for the |
| of mitzvah, there is direct representation of the world | | | | menorah had to meet complete purity of spiritual |
| being illuminated with harmony and wisdom from all the | | | | means, and was created under very special conditions. |
| ignorance strife and darkness. | | | | This was so to have only the best spiritual light of |
| It is explained as with every mitzvah there is a lamp, | | | | physical expression that would illuminate light from the |
| but there are two mitzvot of the lighting of the lamps. | | | | Holy Temple. This was of the utmost importance |
| There is the menorah that the Torah says that this | | | | because Jerusalem's Holy Temple has always been |
| light is to be lit every afternoon within the Jerusalem | | | | believed to be the epicenter of the manifested |
| Holy Temple, and the Hanukkah lights are to be lit at | | | | presence of God in the life of humanity, according to |
| each nightfall of evening during the eight days of the | | | | the Talmud. |
| Hanukkah festival. | | | | While the original Holy Temple of the menorah holds |
| The lamps of Hanukkah had originated from the lighting | | | | only seven flames of light to be lit through out the day |
| of the Menorah. The Hanukkah festival of lights began | | | | of everyday, and the Hanukkah menorah is of eight lit |
| with the past sages to give honor and remembrance | | | | lamps to be lit only during the festival of Hanukkah. The |
| of the amazing rebirth within the Holy Temple of the | | | | Hanukkah lights are only lit in the hours of darkness |
| light after being forced out during the 2nd Century | | | | and only one per a night over the eight day period. It is |
| BCE, by the rulers of the Hellenists within the Holy | | | | on the eighth night that the entire eight lights will all |
| Land. | | | | meet to be lit at once together. |