I’d like to take this opportunity to greet all our Jewish friends a Happy Hanukkah! I know a lot of Jewish individuals, and they are as excited as Christians when it comes to the Holidays. You can always tell their houses, because nowadays the new trend is blue and white lights adorning their houses in addition to the traditional Menorah.

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights or Festival of Rededication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev, which may be in December, late November, or, while very rare in occasion, early January (as was the case for the Hanukkah of 2005–2006). The festival is observed in Jewish homes by the kindling of lights on each of the festival’s eight nights, one on the first night, two on the second, and so on.

The miracle of Hanukkah is described in the Talmud. The Gemara, in tractate Shabbat 21b,[1] says that after the occupiers had been driven from the Temple, the Maccabees discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned. They found only a single container that was still sealed by the High Priest, with enough oil to keep the Menorah in the Temple lit for a single day. They used this, and miraculously, that oil burned for eight days (the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready).

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