Hanukkah
Also known as Hannukah, Chanukah, Hanukah, care Chimbo, Chanuka, Chanukkah, Hanukka, Chanukka
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Key facts
- Holiday.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.
- Holiday.type
- Jewish
- Holiday.significance
- Commemoration of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167–141 BCE)
- Holiday.relatedto
- Purim, Day of Salvation and Liberation as a rabbinically decreed holiday.
- Holiday.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
- Holiday.frequency
- Annual
- Holiday.image
- File: Hanukkah חג חנוכה.jpg
- Holiday.caption
- Dreidels, Hanukkah menorah, and sufganiyot
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44 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Alternative spellings
- Festival of Lights
- Historical sources
- Books of Maccabees
- Early rabbinic sources
- Narrative of Josephus
- Other ancient sources
- History
- Background
- Traditional view
- Academic sources
- Timeline
- Battles of the Maccabean Revolt
- Characters and heroes
- Rituals
- Kindling the Hanukkah lights
- Candle-lighting time
- Blessings over the candles
- Blessing for lighting the candles
- Blessing for the miracles of Hanukkah
- ''Hanerot Halalu''
- ''Maoz Tzur''
- Other customs
- Special additions to daily prayers
- ''Zot Hanukkah:'' Hanukkah as the end of the High Holy Days
- Other related laws and customs
- Customs
- Music
- Foods
- Dreidel
- Hanukkah gelt
- Hanukkah in the White House
- Dates
- Symbolic importance
- Modern history
- Zionism
- North America
- Relationship to Christmas
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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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.