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Exceptional
pure gold
hannukiah

of Baal Karnei Ram ZTSVK"L
18 carat Inlaid diamonds

The second known hannukiah of this size in the world
is made from pure gold. The first was the 14-carat gold
hannukiah the holy Ruzhin Rebbe ZTSVK"L (the method
of twisted gold wire is not possible with 18-carat gold).
The hannukiah was owned by Rabbi Aharon Moshe
Toibsch ZTSVK"L and religious court president the
creator of the rams’ horns on the [2 possible rabbis]
and the [unclear acronyms] in the form of a ram. His
grandson donated it to the Ahdut Hakodesh synagogue
in Bucharest. The synagogue gifted it to Rabbi Rosen,
the chief rabbi of Romania. Afterwards, the hannukiah
was transferred to the Finkelstein collection in Antwerp.
The Jewish Museum in New York has a silver hannukiah
similar to this one, produced in Vienna in the early 19th
century.

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