JEWISH FESTIVAL: HANUKKAH

Beginning at sundown on December 4th, Hanukkah (“Dedication”) is an eight-day “Festival of Lights.” It commemorates the re-dedication ceremony of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century BCE. A small group of Jewish rebels fought against the Seleucid (Syrian-Greek) army that outlawed their religious practices and had desecrated the altar. When the Maccabean Revolt cleaned and rededicated the Temple, the Talmud records that there was only one day’s worth of oil in the sacred lamp. Yet it burned for eight days.

For more information: https://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/102911/jewish/What-Is-Hanukkah.htm