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    Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE. The eight-day holiday begins on the 25th day of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar, usually in November or December. It remembers the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks, who had tried to stop Jewish religious practices. When the Maccabees recaptured the temple, they found only enough sacred oil to burn for one day, but it miraculously lasted for eight days. Families light one candle on the menorah each night of Hanukkah and play games like spinning dreidels. Traditional foods are fried in oil to represent the

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    Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE. The eight-day holiday begins on the 25th day of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar, usually in November or December. It remembers the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks, who had tried to stop Jewish religious practices. When the Maccabees recaptured the temple, they found only enough sacred oil to burn for one day, but it miraculously lasted for eight days. Families light one candle on the menorah each night of Hanukkah and play games like spinning dreidels. Traditional foods are fried in oil to represent the

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    Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE. The eight-day holiday begins on the 25th day of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar, usually in November or December. It remembers the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks, who had tried to stop Jewish religious practices. When the Maccabees recaptured the temple, they found only enough sacred oil to burn for one day, but it miraculously lasted for eight days. Families light one candle on the menorah each night of Hanukkah and play games like spinning dreidels. Traditional foods are fried in oil to represent the

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    Hanukkah Powerpoint

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    Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE. The eight-day holiday begins on the 25th day of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar, usually in November or December. It remembers the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks, who had tried to stop Jewish religious practices. When the Maccabees recaptured the temple, they found only enough sacred oil to burn for one day, but it miraculously lasted for eight days. Families light one candle on the menorah each night of Hanukkah and play games like spinning dreidels. Traditional foods are fried in oil to represent the

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    Hanukkah, also known as Chanukah*, is the

    Jewish Festival Of Lights.


    The celebration dates back to two centuries before
    Christianity began, and lasts for eight days. The
    word ‘Hanukkah’ means dedication, and honours
    one
    of the greatest miracles in Jewish history.
    *There are two English spellings because the
    Hebrew letter “Chet” has no equivalent in our alphabet
    Who are the Jewish people?
    • Oldest monotheistic (believes in one god)
    religion in the world (about 5,000 years old)
    • Believe in the writings of the Torah or Old
    Testament
    • Unlike Christianity or Islam, do not have
    different sects but do have different
    denominations
    The holiday begins on the 25th day of
    Kislev, which is the ninth month of the
    ecclesiastical (religious) year on the
    Hebrew calendar. In the western
    calendar, Hanukkah is celebrated in
    November
    or December.
    What is the Hebrew calendar?
    • is a lunisolar calendar used today
    predominantly for Jewish religious
    observances.
    • Months are determined by
    moon cycles but years by solar cycles
    • We have leap months!
    The festival is a time for Jewish people to remember their victory in a battle
    against the Greeks over 2,000 years ago to practice their religion without
    restriction. The Greeks had put a stop to all religious practices for the Jews,
    and King Antiochus tried to make Jewish people bow down before a statue
    of him that had been placed in the Jewish temple, praying to Greek gods.
    However, they refused, as the Ten Commandments forbid Jews to worship
    statues or idols. A small group called the Maccabees fought against it, and
    after a three-year war, they were able to recapture Jerusalem from the
    Syrians. However, the Jewish temple was destroyed in the
    process. After cleaning and repairing it, they celebrated
    their victory by lighting an oil lamp, or Menorah, which
    symbolised God’s presence. Although there was only enough oil to
    burn the candle in the temple for one day, it somehow managed to
    keep going for eight days.
    If the story of Hanukkah takes place in Jerusalem, how did Jewish people
    end up in Canada?

    • The Jewish Diaspora


    • From Biblical times Until 1948, the Jewish people did not have a
    country of their own
    • The ancient Jewish homeland is what is modern-day Israel
    • That land was ruled by other peoples who would exile the Jewish
    population for various reasons
    • Some Jews decided to leave to join other Jewish communities which
    grew in various parts of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe
    • The Jewish Diaspora
    • North American Jews began to immigrate primarily with other
    Europeans in the 18th and 19th century
    • The first synagogue in Canada was built in Montreal in 1768
    • Today, there are two broadly recognized ethnic sub-divisions of
    Jews: Ashkenazi (descended from Jews who emigrated to Eastern
    and Northern Europe) and Sephardic (descended from Jews who
    emigrated or remained in the Mediterranean Sea region)
    • There are about 15,000,000 Jews in the world (about 390,000 in
    Canada)
    • By contrast, there are about 2,168,000,000 Christians and
    1,600,000,000 Muslims in the world – so there aren’t that many of
    us!
    One candle on the Hanukkiah, a candelabra with nine candles, is lit each
    day by families either after sunset or at night. The lighting of each candle
    represents the original oil lamp burning for eight days in the temple. The
    ninth candle is out of place usually higher than the others and is lit first,
    then used to light all the others.
    An old European custom is to give Hanukkah gelt (coins or money),
    but a wider range of presents have been exchanged since the 1950s. A
    traditional game is played by children and adults involves a dreidel, a
    four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side.
    Hanukkah’s sole mandatory religious observance is lighting the
    Hanukkah menorah or lamp also called the Hanukkiah. The menorah
    has receptacles for nine candles, one for each of the eight nights of the
    holiday, and one “helper candle,” the shamash, to light the others.
    On Hanukkah, it is customary to play with a dreidel. The game is usually played
    for a pot of coins, nuts, or other stuff, which is won or lost based on which letter
    the dreidel lands when it is spun. Today, people tend to place great importance on
    giving gifts but the tradition is actually to give Hanukkah gelt, gifts of money to
    children to rewarding positive behavior and devotion to Torah study, the cash
    gifts give the children the opportunity to give tzedakah (charity).
    • What does folklore tell us about the invention of dreidels?
    Hanukkah is the time for traditional and celebratory food, with most
    dishes being deep fried in oil to represent the miraculous eight-day
    burning of the Menorah.

    Latkes, a kind of potato fritter resembling pancakes, can be topped with


    sweet and savoury toppings, ranging from cherries and apples to
    potatoes and carrots.

    A sufganiyah is a deep-fried jam or custard filled


    doughnut topped with powdered sugar, traditionally
    eaten in Israel but consumed around the world
    during Hanukkah due to the fact they
    are cooked in oil.

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