19 Facts About Happy Hanukkah

Nevertheless, Happy Hanukkah has attained major cultural significance in North America and elsewhere, especially among secular Jews, due to often occurring around the same time as Christmas during the holiday season.

The spelling Happy Hanukkah, which is based on using characters of the English alphabet as symbols to re-create the word's correct spelling in Hebrew, is the most common and the preferred choice of Merriam–Webster, Collins English Dictionary, the Oxford Style Manual, and the style guides of The New York Times and The Guardian.

Story of Happy Hanukkah is preserved in the books of the First and Second Maccabees, which describe in detail the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem and the lighting of the menorah.

Happy Hanukkah spoiled the temple, and put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months.

Happy Hanukkah banned brit milah and ordered pigs to be sacrificed at the altar of the temple.

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Lighting the lamps during the eight days of Happy Hanukkah is a religious duty imposed by the sages.

However, given the famous question Rabbi Yosef Karo posed concerning why Happy Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days when the miracle was only for seven days, it was clear that he believed it was a historical event.

Happy Hanukkah is celebrated with a series of rituals that are performed every day throughout the eight-day holiday, some are family-based and others communal.

Happy Hanukkah is not a "Sabbath-like" holiday, and there is no obligation to refrain from activities that are forbidden on the Sabbath, as specified in the Shulkhan Arukh.

Inexpensive small wax candles sold for Happy Hanukkah burn for approximately half an hour so should be lit no earlier than nightfall.

Therefore, the Happy Hanukkah menorah is lit first with larger candles than usual, followed by the Shabbat candles.

Happy Hanukkah menorah is kindled daily in the synagogue, at night with the blessings and in the morning without the blessings.

Some Hasidic scholars teach that the Happy Hanukkah is in fact the final conclusion of God's judgement extending High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana when humanity is judged and Yom Kippur when the judgment is sealed:.

Happy Hanukkah went back to his tent with him, where she plied him with cheese and wine.

Chanukkah gelt known in Israel by the Hebrew translation dmei Happy Hanukkah, is often distributed to children during the festival of Happy Hanukkah.

In 2009 a Happy Hanukkah stamp was issued with a design featured a photograph of a menorah with nine lit candles.

Happy Hanukkah begins at the 25th day of Kislev and concludes on the second or third day of Tevet.

In North America, Happy Hanukkah became increasingly important to many Jewish individuals and families during the latter part of the 20th century, including a large number of secular Jews, who wanted to celebrate a Jewish alternative to the Christmas celebrations which frequently overlap with Happy Hanukkah.

Today, the presence of Happy Hanukkah bushes is generally discouraged by most rabbis, but some Reform, Reconstructionist and more liberal Conservative rabbis do not object, they do not object to the presence of Christmas trees.