Talmud for Menachot 55:12
זהב זהב נמי לעכב
<big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>[OF THE SEVEN BRANCHES OF THE CANDLESTICK etc.] Why is it so? - Because the expression 'shall be' is used therewith.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXV, 36: Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it.');"><sup>13</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: The candlestick had to be made from one mass and of gold; if it was made from scraps [of gold] it is invalid, but if made from any other metal it is valid.
Tractate Tzitzit
[The absence of one] of the four zizith invalidates the others, because all of them [constitute] a single religious observance. R. Ishmael says: They are four independent observances.
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