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Because Hanukkah celebrates the miracle of a small amount of lamp oil keeping the Second Temple’s Menorah alight for eight days, foods fried in oil are traditionally eaten to celebrate the holiday.
Today, Jews light the menorah for eight nights. They play games, sing songs and exchange gifts to joyfully celebrate the high holidays. Of course, the festive party cooking and eating a menu of ...
The meal continues with festive foods (often chicken), often with singing and sharing Torah thoughts. It is customary at Ashkenazic Shabbos meals to eat "gefilte fish" at the beginning of the meal, [4] a dish made of ground, deboned fish, commonly carp, whitefish, pike, and Nile perch. Chicken soup is also commonly eaten at the Friday night ...
A nine-branched menorah is also a symbol closely associated with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. According to the Talmud , after the Seleucid desecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem , there was only enough sealed (and therefore not desecrated) consecrated olive oil left to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.
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.
As the first night of Hanukkah approaches, with the recent rise in antisemitic hate crimes following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, are you feeling too afraid to place your menorah in the ...
Seudah shlishit (Hebrew: סעודה שלישית, romanized: səʿuḏah šəlišiṯ third meal) or shaleshudes (Yiddish, an elided form of Hebrew: שָׁלֹשׁ סְעֻדוֹת, romanized: šāloš sǝʿuḏot, lit. 'three meals') is the third meal customarily eaten by Sabbath-observing Jews on each Shabbat.
Menorah may refer to: . Jewish candelabra: Temple menorah, a seven-branched candelabrum used in the Tabernacle, the Temple in Jerusalem, and synagogues; Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiyah, a nine-branched candelabrum used during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah