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Hanukkah (ə {respell|HAH|nə-kə}; חֲנֻכָּה, Tiberian: Ḥănukkāh, usually spelled חנוכה, pronounced χanuˈka in Modern Hebrew; a transliteration also romanized as Chanukah or Chanukkah), also known as the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the...
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• (n.) The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The fe...
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Jewish festival that begins on Kislev 25 (in December, according to the Gregorian calendar) and is celebrated for eight days. Hanukkah reaffirms the ... [6 related articles]
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In Judaism, an eight-day festival of dedication and lights that takes place at the beginning of December. It celebrates the recapture of the Temple in Jerusalem from Antiochus IV of Syria in 164...
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Dedication. An eight day festival of lights to celebrate the re-dedication of the temple following the Macabean victory over the Greeks.
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(Chanukah, Chanukkah, or Chanuka) An eight-day Jewish festival of lights commemorating the victory of the Hasmonean priests over the non-Jewish Seleucid rulers of Palestine in the second century BCE. On each night a candle is lit on a special Hanukkah menorah, and presents are exchanged (Hinnells 1991
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n] - (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem
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In Judaism, an eight-day festival of dedication and lights that takes place at the beginning of December. It celebrates the recapture of the Temple in Jerusalem from Antiochus IV of Syria in 164 BC by Judas Maccabaeus, and its rededication. During Hanukkah, candles are lit each night and placed in a nine-branched candlestick, or hanukkiah&#...
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Literally dedication. An eight-day festival beginning on the twenty-fifth day of Kislev,
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