Assertion: menorah's branch | /r/HasProperty | straight
Facets:
value: diagonally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The ancient rabbis as well as most other interpreters are silent on whether the branches were straight or rounded.
text: Unlike modern depictions of the menorah, it is thought that the branches were all straight (yashar), not curved.
text: Evidently, the branches (kanim) of the Menorah were not curved like semi-circles, but instead were straight and extended diagonally upwards.
text: Most read Rashi as stressing that the branches of the menorah were diagonally straight, and negating that they were rounded like an arch.
text: So if we are to claim that the branches of the menorah were indeed straight, then why would the Arch of Titus, which was built just a few years after the destruction and depicts the plunder of Jerusalem, depict the branches in a rounded fashion?
text: There is some speculation that the original Menorah used straight branches rather than the curved ones often seen today.
text: Unlike modern depictions of the menorah, it is thought that the branches were all straight (yashar), not curved.