Eternal light

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 223 words | Copyright

Eternal light (Heb., ner tamid). The light kept burning before the ark in the Jewish synagogue. The ner tamid is a symbolic reminder of the golden seven-branched candlestick (menorah) which burned continually in the temple.

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