CELEBRATION
The Hebrew month in which Chanukah occurs.
What is Kislev?
The Maccabees lived in first lived in this village.
What is Modi'in?
Chanukkiyah
What is the proper Hebrew term for a Chanukah menorah?
The Hebrew word Chanuka mean this.
What is "dedication?"
Getting this letter means put one in.
What is shin?
The day of the month on which Chanukah begins.
What is the 25th (of Kislev)?
Chanukah celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over this army in 165 BCE.
What is the Assyrian (Syrian) (Greeks)?
The direction in which we place the candled in the chanukiyah
What is from right to left?
The Hebrew word for "candle"
What is ner?
This letter means you get nothing.
What is nun?
Jelly filled donuts are these.
What are sufganiyot?
Matthathias' five brave sons
Who are Eliezer, Simon, John, Jonathan, and Judah?
The direction in which we light the candles on the Chanukiyah
What is from left to right (with the newest candle being lit first)?
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The Hebrew word maccabee means this. Its letters are also an acronym that stands for this phrase.
You must answer both parts of the question to get the points!
What are "hammer" and "Mi Chamocha Ba'eilim Adonai?"
This letter means you get half of the pot.
What is hei?
This is why we eat latkes and sufganiyot.
What is we foods cooked in oil to remember the miracle of the oil that lasted 8 days?
We have Chanukah gelt for this reason.
What is gelt originally indicated the independence of the Maccabean state which coined its own money?
The total number of candles needed for each Chanukiyah lit for eight nights
What is 44?
The Hebrew word levivot is more popularly known by this name.
What are latkes?
This letter means you win the whole pot!
What is gimel?
A pei instead of a shin.
What is the difference between Israeli and American dreidels?
This is today's synagogue corresponds to the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.
What is nothing? (The synagogue has no altar or symbol of an altar.)
To proclaim the miracle
What is the reason people place a chanukiyah in their window?
The Hebrew letters on a dreidel - nun, gimel, hei, shin - stand for these Hebrew words, which mean this.
What is nes gadol hayah sham, a great miracle happened there?
The Hebrew word for "dreidel"
What is sevivon?