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Baladi-rite Temani Jews had it as a custom to read the scroll after the haftarah reading on Shabbat Hanukkah. [ 18 ] The Hebrew text with an English translation can be found in the Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem of Philip Birnbaum , published in 1949 and still in widespread use in English-speaking Orthodox and Conservative synagogues.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are 24 spellings for Hanukkah, during which Jews light candles on a menorah to celebrate the miracle of a one-day oil supply lasting eight after ...
The Prayer in a Siddur from the city of Fürth, 1738, from the collections of the National Library of Israel The prayer as a part of the candle lighting blessing, Moorocan Jewish variant Al HaNissim alternatively V'al HaNissim [ 1 ] ( [ו]עַל הַנִסִּים , "[and] on the miracles") is an addition to the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon on ...
Hanukkah celebrates the victory of a small group of Jewish rebels over an enormous Greek army to defend their heritage, and a miraculously long-lasting flame that continues to serve as a symbol of ...
The Hanukkah story. According to Jewish tradition, after the winning back Jerusalem, they found that the Temple had been destroyed. They began to clean it up and wanted to light the menorah (a ...
The Hebrew word sufganiyah is a neologism for pastry, based on the Talmudic words sofgan and sfogga, which refer to a "spongy dough". [3] The word is built on the same root as the Modern Hebrew word for sponge (ספוג, sfog), which is derived from Koinē Greek: σπόγγος, romanized: spóngos.
Jesus, having been born into a Jewish family more than a century after the events described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees, would have celebrated Hanukkah along with his fellow Jews in the first ...
A Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, [a] is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all eight branches are ignited.