Hanukkah is a holiday celebrated by Jews. It is an eight day celebration of lights and fun. Hanukkah is celebrated to devote to the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. Which is why Hanukkah is a hebrew word which means dedication. Believe it or not Hanukkah can actually be pronounced and spelled two different ways. The candelabra lighting is the main part of the festival. The candelabra holds nine candles. However one of the candles is the shamash, also known as the consequent, which is used to light all the other candles. Each night a candle is lite by the shamash. That process is continued for eight nights when all the candles are lite. Each night, right after the candles are lite, the people that celebrate Hanukkah eat fried food and sing traditional
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This great event was known as the Hanukkah story. It is said that way back then in BCE the Jewish Temple was captured and forced to worship the God Zeus by the Syrian-Greek soldiers. The Jewish people were infuriated but were too afraid to fight back due to the payback they would get from the soldiers. Then two years later the announcement was made by the Syrian-Greek emperor that you would be executed if found worshiping God. That instead the greek gods should be worshiped. It was not too long before there was Jewish intransigence began. That which lead to them being rounded up by the greek soldiers and to form a circle. Once gathered up were forced to eat the skin of a pig and worship greek god idols, which were two forbidden thing for Jews. Then one of the greek soldiers ordered the high priest to kill the Jews that had disobeyed. The high priest got his sword and killed the soldier for giving him orders and turned on his soldiers and with the help of the other Jews defeated the Syrian-Greek soldiers. Once they had won their land and the temple back over, they knew the temple would be unclean and impure because of the false idols worshipped there. The Jews tried to cleanse the temple by lighting the temples candelabra with the oil left over in the invasion but turned out to be only enough oil for one day. Somehow the oil lasted eight whole days to keep the candelabra lit for eight days to purify the
This great event was known as the Hanukkah story. It is said that way back then in BCE the Jewish Temple was captured and forced to worship the God Zeus by the Syrian-Greek soldiers. The Jewish people were infuriated but were too afraid to fight back due to the payback they would get from the soldiers. Then two years later the announcement was made by the Syrian-Greek emperor that you would be executed if found worshiping God. That instead the greek gods should be worshiped. It was not too long before there was Jewish intransigence began. That which lead to them being rounded up by the greek soldiers and to form a circle. Once gathered up were forced to eat the skin of a pig and worship greek god idols, which were two forbidden thing for Jews. Then one of the greek soldiers ordered the high priest to kill the Jews that had disobeyed. The high priest got his sword and killed the soldier for giving him orders and turned on his soldiers and with the help of the other Jews defeated the Syrian-Greek soldiers. Once they had won their land and the temple back over, they knew the temple would be unclean and impure because of the false idols worshipped there. The Jews tried to cleanse the temple by lighting the temples candelabra with the oil left over in the invasion but turned out to be only enough oil for one day. Somehow the oil lasted eight whole days to keep the candelabra lit for eight days to purify the