info: the Minorah

2002-12-02 Thread sylvestm
is it true that the minorah comes from Greece?
is there a scientific explanation as to why
a oil lamp which is supposed to last for one day
lasted for eight days?
 Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida

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Re: info: the Minorah

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Brandon
At 6:52 AM -0800 12/2/02, sylvestm wrote:

is it true that the minorah comes from Greece?



I have no idea, since I have no idea what a minorah is.
If you mean Menorah, the answer is no.
Oil lamps are quite old.


is there a scientific explanation as to why
a oil lamp which is supposed to last for one day
lasted for eight days?



No, since it's not a scientific question.
It's a myth invented rather recently to change a military holiday 
into a spiritual one.

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Re: info: the Minorah

2002-12-02 Thread Hank Goldstein
1. My menorah comes from the Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago, Ill.
2. Who knows these things (was Jonah swallowed by a whale, did the Red
Sea really part for Moses or for Charleton Heston, even)?
3. Stop with all this tsouris (trouble). Go eat some latkes and spin a
dreidel already!
Happy Chanukah,
Hank

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is it true that the minorah comes from Greece?
is there a scientific explanation as to why
a oil lamp which is supposed to last for one day
lasted for eight days?
 Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida

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