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Chanukah - Hanukkah
Light Over Darkness
Dec. 21-29, 2008
Holidays » Chanukah - Hanukkah
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Chanukah (Hanukkah) Kids
Our Chanukah children's site features interactive games, video, audio and much more on the festival of Chanukah
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Chanukah Audio
Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the defeat of the Syrians who had defiled the Holy Temple and attempted to force the Jews to assimilate. It is celebrated for eight days by kindling the menorah each evening.
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Chanukah Videos
Watch a renactment of the Chanukah story, visit a candle making factory, learn how to fry latka and so much more...
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Pure Oil
By Chaya Shuchat
"Ritually pure" -- what, exactly, is that? What properties does a ritually pure sample of olive oil have that the others don't?
Holidays » Chanukah » Insights & Inspiration » Oil » Pure Oil
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Kislev 25
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Chanukah
By J. Immanuel Schochet
The mitzvah of lighting the Chanukah-menorah derives from the menorah
in the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple). After the Hasmoneans overcame our
enemies, they could not find pure oil for the menorah, except for a “small
flask of pure oil sealed with the ...
Spirituality » Contemporary Works » Living With Moshiach » Holidays » Chanukah
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After Chanukah
By Gershon Kranzler
The Victories of the Heroic Chashmonaim
The brightness of the first Chanukah lights had dwindled
down. But the holy fires on the altar burnt again in the Bet Hamikdash,
from morning to morning, as prescribed by the Law. The priests were again ...
Kids » Bookshelf » Chanan and His Violin » After Chanukah
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Chanukah
Adapted by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
In this Sicha, the Rebbe explains the Mitzvah of the Chanukah lights, and concentrates on two of their features, that they are to be placed by the door of one’s house that is adjacent to the street, or the public domain, and that they must be placed ...
Spirituality » Contemporary Works » Torah Studies » Bereishit » Chanukah
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Seeing Lessons
By Shlomo Yaffe
Hedonism and ascetics are two sides of this same Hellenic coin: when the soul (flame) meets the body (wick), either the flame gutters out, or it consumes the wick leaving only formless soot behind...
Holidays » Chanukah » Insights & Inspiration » The Battle » Seeing Lessons
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