Hanukkah lamp
- Inventory number:
- Мт-362
- Author:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 19th century
- Place of Creation:
- Austria, Vienna
- Provenance:
- Lviv synagogue, Lviv Historical Museum
- Technique:
- stamping, repousse, soldering
- Size:
- 20 x 24 x 5 cm
- Material:
- silver
- Type of object:
- Candlestick
- Subject:
- Judaism
In the Babylonian Talmud, there is a description of the miracle that happened during the Maccabean rebellion, when the rebels recaptured the Jerusalem Temple from the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty and their supporters, and found in it only one jug of desecrated oil for lamps, sanctified by the supreme priest. The miracle was that the oil from one jug burned in the lamps for eight days, which were needed to make and consecrate the new oil. In memory of this, an oil lamp or an eight-candlestick is lit every year, one lamp or candle for each day of the holiday. Often such a lamp was made of silver.
