
Rav Chaim Kanievsky: Menorah Was Not Round
Rav Chaim Kanievsky, a Lithuanian Gadol considered by many to be the leading Posek in the Orthodox-Jewish world, recently wrote a Halachic response in which he asserted that the branches of the Menorah in the Beis Hamikdash were not round – a point famously iterated by the Lubavitcher Rebbe several decades ago.