Basics
Known as the Festival of Lights
What is Chanukah?
Probably not true but most Jews think this game was devised to fool the Syrians into thinking Jews were not studying
What is the dreidel game?
The direction I write in Hebrew is the same way candles are placed in the hanukkiah
What is right to left?
His name means hammer.
What is Macabee?
I am one of the Greek decrees against the Jews. The human body is to be indulged (enjoyed) and glorified for it's own self.
What is no circumcision?
This English word is equivalent to the Hebrew word “Chanukah”
What is dedication
We're part of a group of 22 and in English it's HaPpeNinG
What are Nun, Gimmel, Hey, Pey
The way I write in Spanish is the way I light my Chanukah candles.
What is left to right?
We're from this town. Not far from Beit Shemesh.
What is Modiin?
Who is Hannah?
These chocolate coins are used as stakes in the dreidel game
What is gelt?
“Nes Gadol Haya Po” translates to this in English
What is “A great miracle happened here”?
Once I am lit, I must be lit this long and then I did the mitzvah of publicizing the miracle.
What is 30 minutes?
He killed a Hellenized Jew that approached the newly built altar to offer a sacrifice.
Who is Matistiyahu?
He lost both his head and right arm to Judah Maccabee and they were displayed in Jerusalem as a warning.
Who was Nicanor?
Dad fried these twice this Chanukah
What are latkes?
I have the same root as Shimshon and the word sun in Hebrew? I also serve the other candles in the menorah.
What is the shamash?
What is 18?
After we killed a lot of Syrians and destroyed the altar, we fled to these hills.
What are the Judean Hills?
I am a word in Hebrew that is made up of 3 letters that look similar for one is longer than the other and the other. It's also the name of the empire that oppressed the Jews during the Chanukah story.
What is Yavan? יון
The first day of Chanukah in the Hebrew calendar
What is Kislev 25
I have two more candlesticks than the menorah in the beis a mikdash?
What is a hanukkiah?
We celebrate these with a lot of simcha and a lot of halachas but they are not in the Chumash.
As priests and descendants of Aaron we did this even though we shouldn't have.
Who took the throne of Judea?
The years 3594-3597 were among the blackest years in Jewish history.
What were the years of the Greek evil decrees?