Shape

Hanukkah

Shape of Menroah

The Torah states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses. The branches are often artistically depicted as semicircular, but Rashi and Maimonides (according to his son Avraham) held that they were straight; no other Jewish authority expresses an opinion on the subject. Archaeological evidence, however, including depictions by artists who had actually seen the menorah itself, indicates that they were neither straight nor semicircular but elliptical.

Fate of Menorah