What do we know about the celebrated holiday call the festival of light otherwise call hanukkah? Read on to find out more.
All around the world, Jewish adults and children celebrate the Jewish festival of lights called Hanukkah.
The date of Hanukkah changes every year, because it depends on the calendar, but it will always fall in November or December.
Last year it happens from nightfall on 22 December until nightfall on December 30. Hanukkah festival music
The giving of gifts and displaying of holiday decorations have become a regular practise in modern times; According to some they were customs adopted from Christmas traditions.
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True Hanukkah traditions include lighting the candles on a nine-branched menorah called a Hanukkiah and saying the blessings, making and eating potato latkes (pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts)—both cooked in oil—and playing dreidel, a game of chance played with a four-sided top.
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True Hanukkah traditions include lighting the candles on a nine-branched menorah called a Hanukkiah and saying the blessings, making and eating potato latkes (pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts)—both cooked in oil—and playing dreidel, a game of chance played with a four-sided top.
The centerpiece of the Hanukkah celebration is the hanukkiah or menorah, a candelabra that holds nine candles. Eight candles symbolize the number of days that the Temple lantern blazed; the ninth, the shamash, is a helper candle used to light the others.
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