The Jewish Festival of Hanukkah: The History and Practices of the Holiday, Types of Menorah, and the Jewish Dreidel

Hanukkah is essentially at its most basic principal, the celebration of a military victory during the 2nd century BC which was fought and won by the Maccabees, a religious and nationalist rebellion militant faction. When the Maccabees triumphed against the foreign Seleucid military which was comprised of Greek and Syrian soldiers, they repatriated and rededicated the Second Temple which stood in Jerusalem, Israel. The Second Temple was the Jewish holy temple which stood on the Temple Mount durin...


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