Reply To: Chanuka Menorah

@770- all of them were round and in windows! (gasp)
-So why do they make such a big deal to others to follow the straight branches? Which makes it hard to believe that “all” of them were round not just some if any. Especially when this is made such a big deal of, why would any lubavitcher specifically get a curved branch menorah. Are you implying that they follow that opinion? Maybe the fact that they were in the window meant these people werent lubavitch and therefore had curved branch menorahs lol. But hey if thats what you observed then it is what it is.

@Uber-“If the 2 Batei Mikdash had different menorahs, then clearly they are both kasher, so how can one of them be “wrong”?”
-ask chabad

Besides noone really knows for sure how the menorah looked since those details arent clearly stated in the known Torah. For whatever reason klal Yisrael always depicted the Menorah as curved branches so it must count for something. I heard a chabad rabbi explaining the topic and one of his defense was “if they found a tefiillin in an old geniza that had 5 sections on the batim does that make it the right way?”
Honestly I’m not sure how thats the same comparison when pretty much all the Menorahs portrayed throughout the years are curved branches and practically none straight. But again the point is noone knows for sure these are all opinions. Its just that for some people their opinions are to be considered as facts and noone can view it differently.