What is the Jewish religious candlestick?

Answer 1

Every Friday night, Jews celebrate the holiday known as Shabbat. It represents the day of rest that God took when he was creating the world. Jews have a special ceremony that begins with lighting candles and blessing them, then blessing wine and drinking it, and finally blessing special bread known as challah and eating it. More religious Jews go to their synagogue (temple) and are involved in a more elaborate ceremony where the cantor reads from the Torah scroll.

On Shabbat, the candles are very special because they represent God. The blessing on Shabbat for the candles is: "Baruch atah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher kidshanu b'mizvotav vetzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Shabbat." Blessed are you, Lord our God, ruler of the universe, who has commanded us to light the Shabbat candles.

Another holiday called Hanukkah, celebrated in December, also creates a significant role for candles. The story goes that the Syrian-Greeks invaded Jerusalem. They attacked the sacred Temple and destroyed everything inside. A small group of Jewish resisters called the Maccabees opposed the Syrians, and even though their numbers were much fewer, they won. When they got to the Temple and found everything destroyed, they were devastated. Their special candelabra, the eternal light that was never supposed to burn out, had run out of oil. All the oil had been defiled. The Jewish people sent soldiers out to find more oil, but it would be an eight-day trip. But then they found a small jar of pure oil. It would not be able to last for those eight days; but a miracle occurred and the flame did last the eight days, and the eternal light in the Temple still shone brightly. In honor of the miracle of the oil, Jews light a menorah, an eight-candle holder, and light another candle every night of the eight-day holiday. The blessing for the candles on Hanukah is: "Baruch atah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav vetzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Hanukkah." Blessed are you, Lord our God, ruler of the universe, who has commanded us to light the Hanukkah candles.

Answer 2

The candle holder for Hanukkah is called a Menorah.

Answer 3

There is the menorah, the 7 branch candelabra that stood in the Temple.

Then there is the channukiah, the 9 branch candelabra that's used for the holiday of Channukah.

Answer 4

It's called a menorah, a Hanukkah-menorah, or (in Israel) a Hanukkiah.

Answer 5

The traditional name is a menorah. In Israeli Hebrew it is most often called a Hanukkiah. See also;
More about Hanukkah

Answer 6

candle holder or candelabra

Answer 7

Hanukkah-menorah.

Answer 8

Jewish homes frequently contain many candle holders. Among them you would be likely to find a matched pair of candle sticks, each holding one candle, used for the Shabbat and festival candles -- a pair of candles lit just before sunset every Friday night and on the eves of the three pilgrimage festivals, Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost) and Succot (the Feast of Booths). You might also find a holder for a Havdalah candle. Havdalah is a ceremony marking the end of Shabbat, in which a braided or multi-wick candle is used. Some people just hold the candle in their hands for this, but there are holders. Finally, most Jewish homes have one or more Hanukkiahs -- 9-branched menorahs used only during the celebration of Hanukkah (8 branches for the 8 nights of the festival, a 9th used to light the other 8).