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wundervisuals/Getty Images. 4. Playing Dreidel. A dreidel is a tiny spinning top, inscribed with Hebrew letters on its four sides, and it’s used to play the popular Hanukkah game by the same name.
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.
Hanukkah traditions. Hanukkah is celebrated with a number of traditions, including: Lighting the menorah. On the eight nights of Hanukkah, people light a menorah, adding an extra candle each night ...
Pages in category "Hanukkah traditions" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Dreidel; K. Kvitlech; M.
Playing with dreidels, or spinning tops, is a Hanukkah tradition for all ages. The custom dates back to the Greek-Syrian rule over the Holy Land. Since learning the Torah at the time was outlawed ...
While lighting the Menorah on Hanukkah was originally established solely to commemorate the miracle of the cruse of oil, after the destruction of the Second Temple, the holiday took on an additional role. It now also serves as a commemoration of the daily lighting of the Menorah in the Temple, and the Temple in general. [citation needed]
The tradition of eating deep-fried pastries on Hanukkah was considered ancient even in the time of the 12th-century rabbi Maimonides, whose father, Rabbi Maimon ben Yosef, wrote that "one must not make light of the custom of eating sofganim [fritters] on Chanukah. It is a custom of the Kadmonim [the ancient ones]".
Hanukkah is coming! ... Traditions include lighting of the menorah, playing the game of dreidel, and eating foods such as potato pancakes known as latkes and jelly donuts, or sufganiyot. ...