Jewish%20thought for Menachot 57:10

מאי חיבתכם כדריב"ל דא"ר יהושע בן לוי נס גדול נעשה בלחם הפנים סילוקו כסידורו שנאמר (שמואל א כא, ז) לשום לחם חם ביום הלקחו

golden denar; thereupon it was cast eighty times into the furnace so that it was brought down to a talent! - Since it had been made long ago it would remain in that condition.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., since it had been well wrought and refined in Solomon's days, when centuries later it was cast eighty times into the furnace it would not then have lost very much.');">¹²</span> R'Samuel B'Nahmani said in the name of R'Jonathan, What is the meaning of the expression, 'Upon the pure candlestick'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXIV, 4.');">¹³</span>

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