Hanukkah is in full swing worldwide and here in San Diego. The history behind the holiday and where you can celebrate.
Hanukkah falls in late fall or early winter and is observed this year from Dec. 18 through Dec. 26.
According to the Chabad of Poway website, In the second century BCE, a small band of “poorly armed Jews” led by Judah the Maccabee defeated and reclaimed the Holy Temple of Jerusalem from the Seleucids , who tried to force them to accept Greek culture and beliefs over their own. When they went to light the Temple’s Menorah, they found only one jar of oil that the Greeks did not contaminate. They used the oil to light the menorah, which lasted for eight days.Both are actually right. In Hebrew, the word is pronounced with a guttural sound or"kh." Phonetically it is pronounced kha-nu-kah and not tcha-new-kah.Throughout eight nights, a menorah is lit. The menorah holds nine flames, one known as the shamash or attendant used to light the other eight candles.
Before the menorah is lit, special blessings are recited often in a traditional melody, and traditional songs are sung afterward.Because Hanukkah involves oil, it is customary to eat fried foods like potato latke garnished with applesauce or sour cream and jelly-filled doughnuts called sufganya.It is customary to play dreidel, a four-sided spinning top with Hebrew letters: nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for nes gadol hayah sham or “a great miracle happened there.
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