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According to the English lyrics of 'The Dreidel Song' which children sing at Hanukkah, out of what material is a dreidel made?
clay
What tribe were the Maccabeim from
Levi
what is the relevance to 8 in music
octaves
why do we have a shamash
to not derive benefit from the lights
According to the medrash what is the connection between Dinah and Miriam HaChashmonai?
Dina was raped and they would rape each bride pre marriage, Miriam asked her brothers if they'd let her be raped and then they fought back
4 How many sons of Matisyahu (also called Mattathias) fought the Greeks?
Answer: 5
Name the Maccabeas
Matisyahu was an elder of the Jewish town of Modi'in. When the Greeks tried to force the Jews to sacrifice to the Greek gods, Matisyahu refused - and slew the first Jew who betrayed his religion to do so. 'Follow me, all of you who are for God's law and stand by the covenant!' All those who followed him and his five sons (Yehuda (Judah), Eliezer (Elazar), Yohanan, Yonaton, and Shimon) formed a guerrilla army.
what is the kabalistic understanding of the number 8?
lemaalah min hatevah
how long should the chanukia stay lit on friday?
48 minutes
Who and what
who believes the Maccabeim sinned and what was their sin?
Ramban- lo yasur shevet miyehudah
What modern day country were the 'Greeks' based in?
Syria
After Alexander the Great's empire split up, 'Judea' flipped between two parts of the former empire, one based in Egypt under Ptolemy and one in Syria under Antiochus. It was against Antiochus IV that the Macabbees rebelled.
who was teh first person to say Mi LAshem ELay?
Moshe
in which Simon in the beis Yosef does he give multiple answers for why chanukah is 8 days
670
say the al hanissim by heart
pay more attention during benchting and davening
in what way do we have venahaafoch hu on chanusa regarding Halacha?
ashkenazim follow the rumba, sefardim follow tosfos
Sufganiyot are delicious doughnuts eaten in Chanukah. They are deep fried in oil, this to remember the miracle Jews celebrate during this holiday. What is NOT a common ingredient used in sufganiyot?
Answer: Matzah
Also known as ponchkes, sufganiyot are doughnuts filled with either jelly, custard or chocolate. They can also be powdered with sugar to make the taste even sweeter. Even though the traditional and least expensive filling is strawberry jelly, other fillings, such as chocolate cream and vanilla cream, have been created.
who is the reason for why we eat dairy?
Yehudis- also af ehin
what else happened on 25 kisleiv
yaaakov buried
If a man is away from home on one of the nights of Hanukah, such as if he is traveling on business, and his family
members are home, then his wife lights the Hanukah candles at home on his behalf, reciting the usual Berachot,
and he does not light. If this happens on the first night of Hanukah, then the wife recites the three Berachot
("Le’hadlik," "She’asa Nissim," and "She’hehiyanu"), as usual. If the husband then returns home for lighting on the
second night, the question arises as to whether the husband recites the Beracha of "She’hehiyanu"
no he doesnt
explain the two ways of understanding mehadrin min hamehadrin
same or separate