HISTORY
yehuda hamacabee is buried in this city
What is Modiin?
Left to right
how do we light the menorah?
He lost his head by Yehudis.
Who is Eliporni/Holofernes?
The menorah in the beis hamikdash has this many branches.
what is 7?
It comes from the Ukrainian word ‘oladka’
What is a latke?
Because they play an important part in the miracle, they don’t work while the Chanukah lights are burning.
Who are women?
So that if one reads near the Chanukah lights, the benefit will have been derived from something other than the candles.
Why do we have a shammos?
This Greek general shares a name with a Temple gate.
Who is Nikanor?
The amount of menorahs needed per household
What is one?
The first three letters of Chashmonaim stand for these three mitzvos that were outlawed by the Greeks.
What are chodesh, Shabbos, and mila?
The Greeks of Chanukah weren’t very Greek- they actually came from this country.
What is Syria?
8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, he says. (hint:moshiach)
Who is Beis Shammai?
Antiochus called himself Epiphanus (Divine), but behind his back, his soldiers called him___?
What is Epimanus/ the Crazy one?
Hebrew year of the Chanukah ness?
What is 3623?
The pasuk that MaCaBeE stands for is found in this specific section of the Torah.
What is Shiras hayam?
After the chanukah ness, the Chashmonaim were wiped out as punishment for taking this.
what is the kingship?
The earliest one can light Chanukah lights.
What is Plag Hamincha?
The Macabee who was killed by an elephant
Who is Elazar?
The menorah cannot be higher from the ground than this.
What is 20 amos?
The location of the Bais Hamikdash olive grove in the tribe of Asher
What is Tekoa?
In galus bavel, the prophet Daniel had a dream informing him of the four nations that would enslave the Jewish people. In one vision, he saw four wild animals, each one destroying the one that came before it. Bavel was shown as a lion, Persia as a bear, Greece as a ______.
What is a leopard?
This Chanukah event is not mentioned in Al HaNissim
What is the menorah burning for eight days?
The only Jewish person mentioned in Maoz Tzur
Who is Zerubavel?
He wrote a book with 100 answers to the question of why Chanukah is 8 days and not 7.
Who is R’ Yosef Karo?
The dedication offering read on the third day of Chanukah was brought by the nasi of this tribe.
What is Zevulun?