On Monday evening, December 22, the seventh night of Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh Tevet, (the first day of the new month of Tevet), hundreds of people braved the cold and inclement weather in Jerusalem to participate in a unique and historic event organized by the Temple Institute. After years of research and experimentation, and three months of intensive preparation, the Temple Institute unveiled before the public a ceramic vessel made in complete accordance with the rules guiding purity in the Holy Temple. The vessel was filled with 3.5 log (a Biblical measurement corresponding to approximately two liters) of olive oil from olives grown, harvested and processed into oil also in complete accordance with the complex rules guiding purity in the Holy Temple. 3.5 log is the precise amount of oil necessary to fill the seven lamps of the Temple Menorah with enough oil to burn for one day. The ceramic cruse, filled with pure oil and sealed, was of the same size and description of the ceramic cruse of pure oil, sealed with the seal of the Kohen Gadol, (High Priest), which was discovered by the Kohanim when they entered the Holy Temple, which had been defiled by the Greek invaders, the event celebrated by the Chanukah Festival of Lights. As we know, the single cruse of pure oil, filled with enough oil for one day, miraculously kept the seven Menorah lamps burning for eight days, providing enough time for the Kohanim to produce new vessels of pure olive oil for the continued lighting of the Menorah lamps.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:02:26 +0000
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