what happens at the festivals of hannukah and channukah?

Question

sorry ia mnot sure if they are seperate festivels or if it is the same festivel but it has 2 names depending on what the person know it buy

Answer 1

The word is transliterated and as such, any spelling that gets close is fine.

Chanukah (my preferred spelling) is the celebration of the re-dedication (Chanukah means dedication) of the Temple after being sacked by the Syrian Greeks in about 200 BCE. The actual rededication took place in 182 BCE. The first act performed when the Temple was liberated was to light the Menorah. The Macabees, the family and their army that took back the Temple, found a single cruse of pure oil, enough to burn for one day. To obtain more oil would take a week. A miracle occurred which allowed the oil to burn for 8 days until a new supply was received. Therefore, the miracle is publicized by lighting candles on 8 consecutive nights (1 on the first, 2 on the second, etc) in commemoration.

There is a custom of eating fried foods on Chanukah, in remembrance of the oil. The custom of gift giving is largely borrowed from the Christmas tradition of doing so....although there is a custom for a husband to give his wife gifts of jewelry or clothing prior to the 3 pilgrimage festivals (of which Chanukah is not one) which has been extended to Chanukah by many.

Answer 2

It's the same holiday, just spelled differently.
Chanukah is also called the festival of lights. The celebration is an eight day day festival beginning on the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev. Commemrating the rededicaton of the Temple and the miracle of the oil.

According to tradition as recorded in the Talmud, at the time of the rededication, there was very little oil left that had not been defiled by the Greeks. Oil was needed for the menorah (candelabrum) in the Temple, which was supposed to burn throughout the night every night. There was only enough oil to burn for one day, yet miraculously, it burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of oil for the menorah. An eight day festival was declared to commemorate this miracle. Note that the holiday commemorates the miracle of the oil, not the military victory: Jews do not glorify war.

Answer 3

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights or Festival of Rededication, is an eight day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev, which may be in December, late November, or, while very rare in occasion, early January (as was the case for the Hannukkah of 2005–2006). The festival is observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each of the festival's eight nights, one on the first night, two on the second night and so on.
there both the same thing(i think)

Answer 4

They're the same festival, just different spellings!
And I'm not entirely sure what they do (school RE lessons were a long time ago!), sorry!

Answer 5

I know so little in life but this I do know: chaunakah and haunaka are two spellings of the same word - that's a gutteral sound (pretend you're trying to spit that h or ch sound out from the back of your throat like a loogie (lugie? see...same word, multiple spellings)).