Alongside the physical abuses that Jews suffered, the loss of the eternal light must have suggested that God’s presence no longer abided in the Temple or among the Jewish people. I can think of ...

What took Rebecca Ucuzoglu Guberman two months to create, the Eaton Fire could have destroyed in minutes. For all the 14-year-old and her family knew, “Eternal Light,” the painting she made in honor ...

It represents the Holy of Holies that was part of the first major temple built by King Solomon. Ner Tamid This means ‘eternal light’ and it is always lit in the synagogue. It represents the ...

This is the Ner Tamid or eternal light. It’s a light that never goes out, and it reminds us that God is always present. In Orthodox synagogues, women and men sit separately. In ours, they sit at ...

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My earliest religious memory is of our synagogue’s Ner Tamid: the decorative electric lamp that hangs in every sanctuary, above the ark holding the Torah scrolls. This lamp, I learned from parents and ...