Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 57:7

ומי חסר כולי האי והתניא ר' יוסי בר' יהודה אומר מעשה והיתה [מנורת] בית המקדש יתירה על של משה בדינר זהב קורדיקיני והכניסוה פ' פעמים לכור והעמידוה על ככר כיון דקאי קאי

R'Ammi said, They finished up all Solomon's fine gold.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deriving from 'to complete, exhaust, finish up'.');">⁷</span> For Rab Judah said in Rab's name, Solomon had made ten candlesticks, and for each one he had used one thousand talents of gold; each had been cast in the furnace one thousand times so that it was reduced to one talent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This lavish and extravagant use of gold would naturally exhaust all his gold, however great his supply was.');">⁸</span>

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