HANUKKAH HISTORY
This Greek tetrarch outlawed all Jewish practice in Israel.
Who is Antiochus Epiphanes?
The story of Hanukkah is found in these apocryphal books.
What are 1&2 Maccabees?
On a hanukkiah, this candle lights the other candles.
What is the shamash candle?
It took this many days to make purified oil.
What are 8 days?
This unclean animal was sacrificed in the temple.
What is a pig?
In any given year, Hanukkah can fall in any of these three months on the Gregorian Calendar.
What are November, December, & January?
The Maccabean Revolt began approximately this year.
What is 165 BC?
The miracle of the oil is in this extra-biblical book.
What is the Talmud?
The menorah and hanukkiah differ in this way.
What are two branches?
Judah the Hammer’s dad went by this name.
Who is Mattathias?
The Jewish people were actually celebrating this holiday upon recapturing the temple in Jerusalem.
What is Sukkot?
Hanukkah begins on this day in the Hebrew Calendar.
What is the 25th of Kislev?
The Maccabeans came to be known by this other name.
What are the Hasmoneans?
This amount of men went with Judah the Hammer and defeated the Greeks.
What are 3,000 men?
The tradition of playing dreidel was started to conceal this spiritual discipline.
What is studying Torah?