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All of the other Jewish holidays are explained or appear somewhere in the biblical canon, from the Bible all the way down into the later writings,” Rabbi Moshe Sokol, dean and professor of ...
The first and second Books of the Maccabees are part of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, which became the template for the Christian version of the Bible. Jesus, having ...
The story of Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible; Jews never agreed on how to interpret this story or the symbols of Hanukkah. The history of the Maccabean period reveals a terrible cultural ...
The term Rosh Hashanah in its current meaning does not appear in the Torah. Leviticus 23:24 [5] refers to the festival of the first day of the seventh month as zikhron teru'ah ("a memorial of blowing [of horns]"). Numbers 29:1 calls the festival yom teru'ah ("day of blowing [the horn]"). [6]
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.
The formal Hebrew name of the holiday is Yom HaKippurim, 'day [of] the atonements'. [6] This name is used in the Bible, [7] Mishnah, [8] and Shulchan Aruch. [9] The word kippurim 'atonement' is one of many Biblical Hebrew words which, while using a grammatical plural form, refers to a singular abstract concept.
The Jewish holiday Hanukkah usually falls in November or December. Learn the meaning of Hanukkah, the Hanukkah story, how it's celebrated and the dates in 2024.
Happy Hanukkah! Here's what you need to know about the Jewish holiday including when it is, what it means and more.