Related%20passage for Menachot 57:2
אלא פרחים תשעה מנלן פרחים תרי דידה וששה דקנים תמניא הוו אמר רב שלמן כתיב (במדבר ח, ד) עד ירכה עד פרחה מקשה היא
But how do we arrive at nine flowers? Its own two and the six of the [six] branches make only eight? - R'Salmon said, It is written, Unto the base thereof, and unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. VIII, 4. The flower (in the Heb. , in the sing.) in this verse is in addition to those mentioned in Ex. XXV, 31ff; hence there were nine. This extra flower was placed at the foot of the candlestick close to the pedestal.');"><sup>1</sup></span>
Explore related%20passage for Menachot 57:2. In-depth commentary and analysis from classical Jewish sources.