Hanukkah

• 09 Dec 2023

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights or Chanukah,commences at sundown on 7th December, 2023.

• It is an eight-day Jewish holiday that commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century BCE.
  • The festival begins on the 25^th day of the Jewish month of Kislev and usually falls in late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.
• Hanukkah celebrates the miracle of a small quantity of oil, which lasted for eight days, lighting the Temple's menorah (candelabrum) at the time of the Maccabean revolt, despite there being only enough oil for one day.
  • The Hanukkah menorah is a nine-branched candelabrum that is lit during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.