Times and Seasons
Chanuka starts on this day of Kislev.
What is the 25th? (kaf hey)
This is what the helper candle is called.
What is the shamash?
This is where the story of Chanuka takes place.
Where is Israel?
This is what nes gadol hayah sham means in English.
What is "a great miracle happened there"?
This is the name of the potato pancake we eat on Chanuka.
What is latke?
The Chanukiah should be lit at this time.
What is sundown?
This is the number of blessings recited over the candles on the 3rd night of Chanuka.
What is 2?
After the Maccabees captured Jerusalem, they needed to clean and rededicate this place.
What is the Beit HaMikdash (the temple)?
What is Pey?
This is how Chanuka foods are cooked.
What is fried?
In Israel, Chanukah is celebrated for this many nights (careful!).
What is eight?
This is the difference between a menorah and a chanukiah.
What is "7 candles in a menorah and 9 candles in a chanukiah"?
This is the tribe that the Maccabee family is from.
What is Levi?
This is what the Jews were actually doing when the Greeks found them playing with dreidels.
What is studying Torah?
These are two things people traditionally put on their latkes.
What are sour cream and applesauce?
On Shabbat, we light the chanukiah on Friday night before this and on Saturday night after this.
What is "before lighting the Shabbat candles and after Havdalah"?
During Chanuka, Al Hanisim is included in these prayers (name one!).
What is benching or the amida?
This is the year that the Maccabees restored the temple.
What is 164 BCE or 165 BCE?
This is the Hebrew word for dreidel.
What is sivivon?
There is a custom of eating dairy on Chanuka in honor of this Jewish heroine.
Scholars believe the first Hanukkah was the delayed celebration of this Jewish Holiday, which also lasts 8 days.
What is Sukkot?
This is where the largest menorah in the world is located.
Where is NYC?
This is what the Hebrew word maccabee means.
What is "hammer"?
Where is Philadelphia?
This was the original purpose of giving gelt as a gift.
What is "to allow the poor to buy chanukah candles"?