whats hanukah?

Answer 1

Hanukah Hanukah, Chanukah, Hanukkah

Solstice Celebration

Hanukkah, literally, dedication, since Hanukkah is a celebration of the rededication of the Temple following a purification ritual.

Following this rededication in 164 B.C., the Maccabees were planning to relight the Temple's candles, but there wasn't enough unpolluted oil to keep them burning until fresh oil could be obtained. By a miracle, the one night's worth lasted eight days -- plenty of time for to obtain a new supply.

In commemoration of this event a menorah, a 9-branched candlestick, is lit each of 8 nights (using the ninth candle), amid singing and blessings. This commemoration is Hanukkah (also spelled Hanukah or Channuka).

According to reader Ami Isseroff: “Channuka was originally Chag Haurim - the festival of light.

This leads to the suspicion that it, too, was a solstice holiday that existed before the victory of the Maccabees, which was welded unto it.”

Answer 2

Hanukkah


Hanukkah is the annual Jewish festival celebrated on eight successive days beginning on the 25th day of Kislev, the third month of the Jewish calendar, corresponding, approximately, to December in the Gregorian calendar. It is also known as the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, and Feast of the Maccabees, Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem by Judas Maccabee in 165 BC after the Temple had been profaned by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, king of Syria and overlord of Palestine.

Answer 3

It is a cool piece of history, a wonderful miracle:
"Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem by Judas Maccabee in 165 BC. In 168 BC the temple was dedicated to the worship of the pagan god Zeus Olympius by order of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, king of Syria and overlord of Palestine, who forbade the practice of Judaism. When Judas Maccabee recaptured Jerusalem three years later, he had the temple purged and a new altar put up in place of the desecrated one. The temple was then rededicated to God with festivities that lasted eight days. According to tradition, only a one-day supply of nondesecrated olive oil could be found for the rededication, but that small quantity burned miraculously for eight days. Jews commemorate this event by lighting candles for the eight nights of Hanukkah. The principal source for the story of Hanukkah is the Talmud."

Answer 4

A Jewish feast celebrating the re-dedication of the temple in Jerusalem.

Answer 5

A jewish festeval in the late fall to early winter.

Answer 6

Jewish Holiday

Answer 7

its a jewish holiday celebrating a miracle from G-d.

EDIT

its nothing like christmas

Answer 8

the jewish festival of lights, its around christmas time.

Answer 9

jewish holiday-just like christmas. =)

Answer 10

jewish holiday