Hebrew
What is Shamash?
Helper candle
Why do we eat jelly donuts and latkes?
Because we deep fry in oil
Where was the Beit Hamikdash/Holy Temple?
Jerusalem
How many blessings do we recite the first night of Chanukah?
3
Chanukah is a major Jewish holiday celebrated in the month of kislev
False
Candle in Hebrew
Ner
What are the letters on the dreidel?
נ ג ה שׁ
Who said "who ever is on the side of God follow me!"?
Mattathias
What's the formula for all the blessings?
Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheinu Melech haolam
The story of Chanukah is in the last section of the Bible, Ketuvim/writings
False
What is nes gadol haya sham?
a great miracle happened there
Difference betweeen menorah and chanukyiah
menorah has 7 branches
chanukyiah has 9
What animals did the Greek army use to fight the Maccabees?
elephants
How do you place the candles in the chanukyiah ? left to right or right to left?
Right to left(Hebrew order), but we light the candles left to right
Antiochus IV didn't let the Jews to study Torah and celebrate Shabbat or any Jewish holidays
True
What's the meaning of the word Chanukah?
Dedication
Where should we place the chanukiah?
by the window?
Who were the Hellenizers?
Jews who followed the Greek culture
What's the blessing we recite every time we do something for the first time at the season?
Shehecheyanu
There was a civil war because many Jews wanted to assimilate and adopt the Greek culture
True
What is Macab?
Hammer
what's the difference between the school of Hillel and the school of Shammai?
Shammai- to decrease the number of candles each night
Hillel- to increase the number of candles
How did the Maccabees get their name from the words of the Mi Chamocha?
They took the initial letters of the first four words and put them together.
On shabbat, what do we light first, shabbat candle or chanukah candle?
chanukah
The Hellenizers were Jews who wanted to study Torah in their leisure time
False. The Hellenizers wanted to adopt the Greek culture.