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Hammer
What does the word מכבי literally mean?
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Light the חנוכיה.
What do we do each evening of Chanukah?
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Latkes.
What is the food that we eat on chanukah that looks like a pancake?
100
8 days.
How many days did the famous small jar of oil last?
100
Right to left.
Do we light the חנוכיה left to right or right to left?
200
אליעזר
Which son of מתתיהו stabbed an elephant and it fell on him and killed him?
200
No.
Can the candles of a חנוכיה be in a circle?
200
They have a lot of oil in them.
Why do we eat latkes?
200
Alexander the great.
Who (a person) took over Israel?
200
כה כסלו
What is the Hebrew date of chanukah?
300
The second בית המקדש.
Was the chanukah story during first or second בית המקדש?
300
No.
Can we use not pure olive oil to light the chanukiah?
300
A place where people outside can see it.
Where do we light our chanukiah?
300
Greek.
What language was the Torah translated into?
300
One half our.
How long after nightfall must you'r oil/candles last?
400
Jews who gave up their religion and became Greek.
Who were the Mityanim?
400
Chanukh candles
Do we light chanukah candles or shabbat candles first?
400
We want to be like more kids in America.
Why do parents give their children presents?
400
Play dreidel.
What did Jewish children do when Greeks would come while they were learning?
400
Light is part of chanukah because we light the chanukiah which makes light.
What does the 25th word in the Torah have to do with chanukah?
500
The Beit micdash and the Torah
What were two centers of Jewish life?
500
Make funeral speeches and fast.
What are two things that we can not do on chanukah?
500
When we used to have no electric lights people could not use the light of the candles to light so they used the shamash for light.
Why do we have a shamash.
500
164 B.C.E.
What year did Yehuda's troops capture the beit micdash?
500
Seleucus and Ptolemy.
Which people took over after Alexander the great died?
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