Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 48:1
של חמשה ושל ששה ושל שמונה ושל שבעה לא יעשה אפי' של שאר מיני מתכות רבי יוסי בר יהודה אומר אף של עץ לא יעשה כדרך שעשו מלכי בית חשמונאי
with five or six or eight lamps, but with seven he should not make, even of other metals.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since a candlestick of other metal besides gold would have been permissible in the Temple. V. Men. 28.');"><sup>1</sup></span> R'Jose B'Judah said: He should not make one even of wood, this being the way in which the kings of the house of the Hasmoneans made it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When they first recaptured the Temple from the Syrians, and were still too poor to provide a gold candlestick.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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