Reference for Menachot 56:17

בשלמא גביעים עשרים ושנים דכתיב (שמות כה, לד) ובמנורה ארבעה גביעים וגו' וכתיב (שמות כה, לג) שלשה גביעים משוקדים בקנה האחד כפתור ופרח וגו' ארבעה דידה

And another Baraitha also taught: A man may not make a house after the design of the Temple, or a porch after the design of the Temple porch, or a courtyard after the design of the Temple court, or a table after the design of the table [in the Temple], or a candlestick after the design of the candlestick [in the Temple]. He may, however, make one with five, six or eight [branches], but with seven he may not make one, even though it be of other metal.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the seven-branched candlestick of the Temple was permitted to be made of other metals too, and even of wood according to R. Jose b. Judah.');">²⁰</span> R'Jose B'Judah says, He should not make one even of wood, for thus did the Hasmonean kings make it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the Temple candlestick, after they had retaken and purified the Temple.');">²¹</span> But [the Rabbis] said to him, Is any proof to be deduced from that? In fact it was made of iron bars which they overlaid with tin;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Many MSS. read: 'with wood'.');">²²</span> when they [the Hasmoneans] grew richer they made one of silver, and when they grew still richer they made one of gold. Samuel said in the name of an old scholar, The height of the candlestick was eighteen handbreadths: three handbreadths for the base and the flower upon it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra, p. 185, n. 6.');">²³</span> two handbreadths plain,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., without any ornamentation.');">²⁴</span> one handbreadth for cup, knop and flower, again two handbreadths plain, one handbreadth for a knop out of which two branches come forth, one on each side, extending and rising to the same height as the candlestick, then one handbreadth plain, one handbreadth for a knop out of which two branches come forth, one on each side, extending and rising to the same height as the candlestick, then again one handbreadth plain, and one handbreadth for a knop out of which two branches come forth, one on each side, extending and rising to the same height as the candlestick, and then two handbreadths plain; there now remained<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the central or main shaft of the candlestick.');">²⁵</span> three handbreadths, in which space were three cups, a knop and a flower. The cups were like Alexandrian goblets,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which were wide at the top and tapered down towards the base.');">²⁶</span> the knops like Cretan apples, and the flowers like the blossoms around the capitals of columns. It will be found, therefore, that there were twenty-two cups, eleven knops, and nine flowers. Of the cups the [omission of] one invalidates the others, of the knops the [omission of] one invalidates the others, and of the flowers the [omission of] one invalidates the others; moreover, of the cups, the knops and the flowers, the [omission of] one kind invalidates the others. It is quite clear that there were twenty-two cups, for it is written, And in th candlestick were four cups,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXV, 34; the reference being to the central shaft.');">²⁷</span> and it is also written, Three cups like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 33.');">²⁸</span> so that its own four<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., of the central shaft.');">²⁹</span>

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