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The
Torah - the arborvitae for everyone
The
symbol of the Menorah connects lights and arborvitae – the
tree of life. This is coherent with the conception of the
Torah as a tree of the life. (Proverbs 3.18, Pirkei Avos
6.7).
Also the theory of the wise, which is,
according to religious conceptions, embodied in the Torah
also is compared with the tree of life (Pr. Sol.
13.14).
So the symbol of the Menorah can express more than the bare
affiliation in Judaism. Thus the Menorah becomes (unlike the
light of the godless, Sol. 13.9) a light and arborvitae; a
symbol of the Torah, the symbol for the light of the
righteous, which won't go out.
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