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Sevivon and Neros
Chanukah Minhags or Halacha
The Maccabees
Greek Oppression
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Known as the Festival of Lights

What is Chanukah?

100

Probably not true but most Jews think this game was devised to fool the Syrians into thinking Jews were not studying 

What is the dreidel game?

100

The direction I write in Hebrew is the same way candles are placed in the hanukkiah 

What is right to left?

100

His name means hammer.

What is Macabee?

100

I am one of the Greek decrees against the Jews.  The human body is to be indulged (enjoyed) and glorified for it's own self.  

What is no circumcision?

200

This English word is equivalent to the Hebrew word “Chanukah”

What is dedication

200

We're part of a group of 22 and in English it's HaPpeNinG

What are Nun, Gimmel, Hey, Pey

200

The way I write in Spanish is the way I light my Chanukah candles.

What is left to right?  

200

We're from this town.  Not far from Beit Shemesh.

What is Modiin?

200
My seven sons refused to eat pork and were all executed.  

Who is Hannah?

300

These chocolate coins are used as stakes in the dreidel game

What is gelt?

300

“Nes Gadol Haya Po” translates to this in English

What is “A great miracle happened here”?

300

Once I am lit, I must be lit this long and then I did the mitzvah of publicizing the miracle.

What is 30 minutes?

300

He killed a Hellenized Jew that approached the newly built altar to offer a sacrifice.

Who is Matistiyahu?

300

He lost both his head and right arm to Judah Maccabee and they were displayed in Jerusalem as a warning.

Who was Nicanor?

400

Dad fried these twice this Chanukah

What are latkes?

400

I have the same root as Shimshon and the word sun in Hebrew?  I also serve the other candles in the menorah.

What is the shamash?

400
The number of minutes that I must be lit prior to Shabbat candlelighting.  I'm also life!

What is 18?

400

After we killed a lot of Syrians and destroyed the altar, we fled to these hills.

What are the Judean Hills?

400

I am a word in Hebrew that is made up of 3 letters that look similar for one is longer than the other and the other.  It's also the name of the empire that oppressed the Jews during the Chanukah story.

What is Yavan?  יון 

500

The first day of Chanukah in the Hebrew calendar

What is Kislev 25

500

I have two more candlesticks than the menorah in the beis a mikdash?

What is a hanukkiah?

500

We celebrate these with a lot of simcha and a lot of halachas but they are not in the Chumash.

What is Chanukah and Purim?
500

As priests and descendants of Aaron we did this even though we shouldn't have.

Who took the throne of Judea?

500

The years 3594-3597 were among the blackest years in Jewish history.

What were the years of the Greek evil decrees?