Shema Yisrael
The Shema Yisrael prayer is considered one of the best known in the Jewish prayer book, and it express the belief in one God and his election of the people of Israel: "Listen Israel, the lord is our God, the lord is one". The prayer appears on the central branch in the Menorah, as an expression of the monotheism of Judaism to the world, as a light unto the nations. Elkan placed "Shema Yisrael" in the center of the Menorah, as a fundamental element to which all other organs and ideas of the Menorah gather to.