I pulled out my copy of "The Mystery of the Menorah and the Hebrew Alphebet" by J.R. Churchand found this on page "29" which is the first page of chapter "2".
Chapter 2
Menorahs of the Old Testament.
Genesis 1:1 forms a Menorah
The bible opens with a menorah. Note the Hebrew text in Genesis 1:1.
(Here he has the same Hebrew letters as you have in your pro and con 1110 as below exactly.)
(He continues)
These seven Hebrew words form the sentence: bereshit [In the beginning] barah [created] Elohim [G-d]eht [aleph/tahv] hashamayim [the heavens] vaeht [and] haeretz [the earth.
The fourth word, eht (pronounced as an eight), seems to represent a Servant Lamp........................................Rabbinic scholars call the aleph and tahv "the word of creation". One rabbi wrote that in thebeggining G-d created the sleph and tahv with all the letters in between----then with that "Aleph-beit"created all things. (I have the first edition of this book and it was printed in 1993)
By the way, he talkes about the Menorah in the tabernacle just as you have in Flavious Josephuswritings but he places the Sun in the 4th position or servant lamp. He further states as he wasexplaining the lamps and their positions, "this middle lamp was called Ner Elohim, The Lamp of G-das well as Shamash, the Servant Lamp. As far as I understand it was the Servant Lamp that theyadded the oil into and it fed all of the other lamps. Not sure if he is correct but you stated that youwondered why it was called the servant lamp and I just wanted to throw that part in. Just noticed anotherquote by J.R. Church. "G-d created the Sun on the "4th" day of creation which is the center day of the"7" days of creation. Notice the Menorah design. There was light on the first day but the Sunwas actually created on the servant lamp day." He also mentions that the sun is the "center" of oursolar system. It provides "light" for the planets as the servant lamp provided oil for the other lamps.
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Sam