the aod, the menorah and channukah.

[jasoncran]

first off lets see what the channukah story was about.

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/600513/jewish/Under-Syrian-Rule.htm

the menorah

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/45620/jewish/Spiritual-Space.htm

interesting.

But if the menorah was aligned north to south, which was the “western lampâ€? Rabbi Elazar explains that the “western lamp†is in fact the middle lamp—the one atop the Menorah’s central stem. The reason it is called the “western lamp†is that its wick faced westward, toward the Holy of Holies, while the other lamps were turned toward the “western lampâ€â€”the three northern lamps facing southward, and the three southern lamps facing northward. (This explains the meaning of the words in the opening verse of our Parshah, “the seven lamps should give light toward the face of the menorah,†the “face of the menorah†being its central stem.)

i stand corrected i told a member here something off on the miracle of this. its good to recheck these things.