4.9 Hanukkah as the end of the High Holy Days.4.3.2 Blessing for the miracles of Hanukkah.4.3.1 Blessing for lighting the candles.Nevertheless, Hanukkah has attained major cultural significance in North America and elsewhere, especially among secular Jews, due to often occurring around the same time as Christmas during the holiday season. Originally instituted as a feast "in the manner of Sukkot (Booths)", it does not come with the corresponding obligations, and is therefore a relatively minor holiday in strictly religious terms. Since the 1970s, the worldwide Chabad Hasidic movement has initiated public menorah lightings in open public places in many countries. Other Hanukkah festivities include singing Hanukkah songs, playing the game of dreidel and eating oil-based foods, such as latkes and sufganiyot, and dairy foods. Each night, one additional candle is lit by the shammash until all eight candles are lit together on the final night of the festival. This unique candle is called the shammash ( Hebrew: שַׁמָּשׁ, "attendant"). One branch is typically placed above or below the others and its candle is used to light the other eight candles. The festival is observed by lighting the candles of a candelabrum with nine branches, commonly called a menorah or hanukkiah.
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Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. Hanukkah ( / ˈ h ɑː n ə k ə/ Hebrew: חֲנֻכָּה, Modern: Ḥanuka, Tiberian: Ḥanukā listen), also known as the Festival of Lights ( Hebrew: חַג הַאוּרִים, Ḥag HaUrim), is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE. Wikisource has original text related to this article:
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Purim, as a rabbinically decreed holiday. Playing the dreidel game, and giving Hanukkah geltĢ5 Kislev, 26 Kislev, 27 Kislev, 28 Kislev, 29 Kislev, 30 Kislev, 1 Tevet, 2 Tevet, 3 Tevet Eating foods fried in oil, such as latkes and sufganiyot, and dairy foods.
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Singing special songs, such as Ma'oz Tzur. The Maccabees successfully revolted against Antiochus IV Epiphanes.Īccording to the Talmud, a later text, the Temple was purified and the wicks of the menorah miraculously burned for eight days, even though there was only enough sacred oil for one day's lighting. English translation: 'Establishing' or 'Dedication' (of the Temple in Jerusalem)