The days of Hanukkah, during which the Temple was purified by the Maccabees! What are you, Jerusalem: the city of God or an ordinary city? And where is your heart: at Givat Ram and the Kirya, or at Mount Moriah?" the announcer, Avshalom Kor, asks ...
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This is an eight-day observance that recalls a miracle in the Jerusalem temple during a war fought by the Maccabees in the cause of religious freedom. Temple candles only had enough oil to burn for a single day, yet they burned for eight days. Today ...
Many people think of it as a "festival of light" because the menorah is the symbol at the heart of the holiday, as we celebrate the miracle of the relighting of the temple menorah when the Maccabees fought back against the Syrian Greeks in 164 BCE. ...
Many people think of it as a "festival of light" because the menorah is the symbol at the heart of the holiday, as we celebrate the miracle of the relighting of the temple menorah when the Maccabees fought back against the Syrian Greeks in 164 BCE. ...
Our Jewish sisters and brothers are in the midst of their celebration of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, as they recall the victory of the Maccabees, the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple, and the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days. ...
When they chased the enemy out of Jerusalem, the Maccabees found their temple had been desecrated. They had only one small vial of untainted olive oil — enough, they thought, to burn for only one day. But to their surprise, the oil lasted the eight ...
Hanukkah, which means "rededication," marks the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians in the second century B.C. According to tradition, the Maccabees had enough oil to light lamps in the temple for only one night, but the oil lasted for eight. ...
High on the list of idiotic commonplace expressions is the old maxim that "it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." How do such fatuous pieces of folk wisdom ever get started on their careers of glib quotation? Of course it would ...
ABOUT HANUKKAH Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday commemorating a victory for religious freedom won by Jews known as the Maccabees more than 2,100 years ago. Tradition maintains that when Jews went to rededicate the Temple in Jerusalem, there was only ...
