Hanukkah

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE, when the Maccabees successfully recovered Jerusalem and the Second Temple.... Wikipedia

• Official name:  חֲנֻכָּה or חֲנוּכָּה (lit. Dedication [of the Temple in Jerusalem ])
• Significance:  Commemoration of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167–141 BCE)Tractate Shabbat 21b:10 of the Talmud: Chazal taught that the Second Temple was cleansed and the Temple menorah lit with only one day's worth of pure olive oil, yet it miraculously burned for eight days
• Celebrations:  Lighting candles each night. Singing special songs, such as Ma'oz Tzur. Reciting the Hallel during Shaḥarit. Eating food fried in oil, such as latkes and sufganiyot, and dairy foods. Playing the dreidel game, and giving Hanukkah gelt.
• Begins:  25 Kislev
• Ends:  2 Tevet or 3 Tevet
• Date:  8 of the 9 days: 25 Kislev, 26 Kislev, 27 Kislev, 28 Kislev, 29 Kislev, sometimes 30 Kislev, 1 Tevet, 2 Tevet, and sometimes 3 Tevet
• date:  8 of the 9 days: 25 Kislev, 26 Kislev, 27 Kislev, 28 Kislev, 29 Kislev, sometimes 30 Kislev, 1 Tevet, 2 Tevet, and sometimes 3 Tevet
• Frequency:  Annual
• Related to:  Purim, Day of Salvation and Liberation as a rabbinically decreed holiday.
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