Both the menorah and the Temple’s showbread table, held to be a stand-in for the Ark of the Covenant, were “thought to be stored in the papal chapel, the Sanctum Sanctorum (‘Holy of Holies ...

To rededicate the Temple, they needed to burn oil in a candelabra, known in Hebrew as a menorah. They found a tiny amount of oil—enough for just one night, but miraculously, it burned for eight ...

Not just any oil was suitable for use in the Temple Menorah. The Torah stipulates that the oil be particularly refined, made from hand-crushed olives, so that it will “raise up a constant flame ...