Templize

Vernacular structures were often “templized” by adding a portico of the correct classical proportions, which were described in detail in architectural copy books.

As such, the maintenance of ritual purity beyond the temple is evidence of the effort to templize other aspects of religious life. Moreover, what is templized or sacrificialized here are those aspects of daily life—particularly prayer and eating—that werer already conceptually related to temple worship.

We thus return to where we began, to the Temple and its service; and to those pious Jews who, in the last centuries of the Temple's existence, sought to “templize” their lives by adopting a mode of life bound by rules of moral and ritual purity;religious meals described in sacrificial terms; and brought together into societies characterized by hierarchical order.

The question then remains, why would the synagogue lampstand be explicitly “templized” as a memorah, while the Torah chest, and other synagogue appurtenances were not so explicitly templized?