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The shamash (helper or attendant) is used to light the Hanukkah menorah or hanukiyah.
The traditional name is a menorah. Modern (Israeli) Hebrew has added the name "hanukkiah."See also the Related Link.More about Hanukkah
It is called a Menorah. It has seven candles because that was the number of oil lamps on the menorah in the Holy Temple (Exodus ch.25). The Hanukkah-menorah has eight candles because that was the number of days of the miracle with the oil.
It's called a menorah, or a Hanukkah menorah. Israelis call it a Hanukkiah.
Hanukkah is called The Festival of Lights, because the oil in the menorah located in the Holy Temple lasted for eight days instead of just one.Answer:Another name for a Hanukkah is Chanukkah in Judaism.
The candle used to light the other candles on the menorah or chanukiah is called the shamash.
It's called a channukiah or Hanukkah-menorah.
That candle holder is referred to as a "Hanukkah-menorah", or Hannukiyah. The original Menorah was the holder of the oil lights in the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, and had seven branches. The holder for the Chanukah lights ... whether candles or oil ... has places for eight lights, plus an elevated holder for one more that's used to light the other eight.
The name of the "lamp" lit is a Channukiah. Some call it a Hanukkah-menorah.
The Hanukkah candles don't have names, except for referring to them generically, as neirot Hanukkah (candles of Hanukkah). The one candle which does have a name is the extra one, used to light the others, which is called the shamash (helper).See also:More about Hanukkah
The traditional name is a menorah. Modern (Israeli) Hebrew has added the name "hanukkiah."See also:More about Hanukkah
It's called a Hanukiyah or Chanukiyah. Many people call it a menorah, but menorah just means lamp. Answer 2: The above is completely mistaken. The word "Hanukkiah," while acceptable, is a recent Israeli invention and is unknown to many Jews worldwide. And using "menorah" to refer to a mere lamp is also recent. The classical Halakhah (Jewish law) sources, and Jews worldwide, have always used the word "menorah" to refer to the Hanukkah candle-holder (or oil-wick holder). Originally "menorah" referred to the candelabra of the Holy Temple and the Tabernacle (Exodus ch.25).