Rituals
This is how many candles there are on a hannukiah
9
This is how we say hammer in Hebrew.
Macabi
Potato pancakes are called this:
The initial letters of the first four words in the prayer Mi Chamocha spell out this Hannukah-related term.
מָכָּבּי(מי כמוכה באלים י)
The original name of the classic חנוכה song, "Rock of Ages" (בּעברית, of course):
What is "מָעוֹז צוּר" ?
This is the candle that lights other candles
What is the shamash candle
The enemies in the Chanukkah story.
Who are the Assyrian-Greeks?
Gelt means money in this language:
What is Yiddish
How many prayers said on the majority of Hannukah nights?
2
The phrase that is encapsulated on a regular dreidl/סביבון
נס גדול היה שם
This is the direction we load the candles into the menorah
What is right to left, like how we read Hebrew?
This is the meaning of the word "chanukkah" in Hebrew
What is dedication ?
This is the Hebrew name for jelly donuts:
Sufganiyot סֻפְגָּנִיּוֹת
One the first night of Chanukkah, after the regular Chanukkah blessing
This is the phrase encapsulated on a dreidl/סביבון IN ISRAEL (בּישרָאֵל).
נס גדול היה פּה
What is the candle in the position of the first night?
The words on the dreidl mean this in English and Hebrew.
A great miracle happened there, Nes Gadol Haya Sham
Sufganiya סֻפְגָּנִיָּה
What the first blessing thanks/blesses God for:
Commanding us to light candles (להָדליק נֵר)
What you would respond if someone asked you how many nights of Hannukah there were בּעברית!
שמונה
This is the relationship between the word "menorah" and "channukiah"
All channukiot are menorot, but not all menorot are channukiot. Menorah is just a candle holder of any kind; Channukiah describes one for Channukah.
This term describes Jews who had become culturally Greek (assimilated).
Shemen Zait (שֶׁמֶן זַיִת) describes this important foodstuff to the Chanukkah story.
What is olive oil?
What the second blessing thanks God for
Doing miracles for our ancestors (שֵעָשָה ניסים לאָבוֹתינוּ)
This word is the verb that means the action that a סְבִיבוֹן does. (Hint: do you know a song that sings about this?)
סוֹב! סוֹב סוֹב!