Search results
In order to understand why the observance of Hanukkah is so important, the Rabbis recount the story of the miraculous jar of oil. Perhaps the Amoraim — the sages of the Talmud — were retelling an old oral legend in order to associate the holiday with what they believed to be a blatant, supernatural miracle.
Oct 27, 2009 · The eight-day Jewish celebration known as Hanukkah or Chanukah commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, where according to legend Jews...
Nov 30, 2017 · One of the reasons for the lack of a clear-cut explanation of Antiochus’s policy is the scarcity of sources. Most of what we know about his decree, its implementation, and the subsequent Jewish...
- Ariel Feldman
Dec 7, 2023 · December 07, 2023. • 6 min read. It's time to celebrate Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights that lasts for eight days and nights in honor of a 2,000-year-old miracle in which light won...
- Amy Briggs
- 2 min
Nov 26, 2021 · Ultimately, it would be Simon Thassi that would eventually manage to liberate the land from Seleucid control, creating the Hasmonean Dynasty and creating the first independent Jewish state since...
- AARON REICH
Dec 21, 2022 · Each year, Jews around the world celebrate an eight-day winter holiday known as Hanukkah (also spelled “Chanukah” and several other ways) on the 25th day of the month of Kislev on the Hebrew...
Through the leadership of Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah over the next hundred or so years, the Jewish people returned to the land in large numbers, though there were still those who chose to stay in Persia (today’s modern-day Iran). And this is basically where the canonical Bible narrative stopped – around 430 BCE.
