Who Can Count Them?
The Hebrew number of the days of Chanukah.
What is shmoneh?
What happens in a dreidel game when you get a gimmel?
What is you get everything?
One Chanukah tradition is to give children money so they can use it to help others by giving tzedakah. A fun symbol of that tradition is these coins made of chocolate.
What is Gelt?
Latkes just wouldn't be latkes if they weren't fried in this.
What is oil?
The word for candle in Hebrew is "ner." It is spelled with these two Hebrew letters and the vowel that looks like two train wheels sitting next to each other.
What are nun and reish?
The Hebrew number of branches on a Chanukah Menorah - also called a Chanukiah.
What is teisha?
The gimmel on the dreidel stands for this Hebrew word which means "big" or "great."
What is "gadol"?
This is the first letter in the Hebrew word for the money we give to do Tikkun Olam (repair the world) and make it more just.
What is tzadee?
The donuts we eat when we celebrate Chanukah.
What are sufganiot?
What is the first blessing for the Chanukah candles?
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What is the number of candles in a box of Chanukah candles?
A "nes" is a miracle. These are the two great miracles we celebrate at Chanukah.
What is the Maccabees victory and the oil lasting eight days?
The number of days during Chanukah when we can give tzedakah.
What is eight?
One Chanukah tradition is to give children real money so they can use it to help others by giving tzedakah. Another Chanukah tradition is to give children chocolate money called ____.
What is chocolate gelt?
On the first night of Chanukah we say this blessing because we are so glad we are here and celebrating in THIS season.
What is the shehechiyanu?
Judah, John, Simon, Eleazar, and Jonathan were the five brothers known as the _______.
Who were the Maccabees?
The letters on the dreidel that stand for nes gadol haya sham.
What are nun, gimmel, hay, and shin?
This word is spelled shin-mem-shin in Hebrew and means helper.
What is shamash?
Even though it's not fried in oil, many Ashkenasic Jewish families (Jewish people whose ancestors were from Europe) eat this meat dish on many holidays including Chanukah.
What is brisket?
The Hebrew word for fire - aish - is two letters and one vowel. The letters are aleph and shin. The vowel looks like _____.
What are two train wheels?
The day of the Hebrew month of Kislev on which we celebrate the first night of Chanukah every year.
What is 25th?
The first and last Hebrew letters of the place where the great Chanukah miracle happened.
What are yud and lamed?
This word is spelled with the same Hebrew letters as "shamash" but with the vowel that looks like eggs in a basket and it means "sun."
What is shemesh?
These are good to eat before they are pressed into oil, too. In Hebrew one of these is called a zayit.
What are olives?
One of the biggest of Chanukah's big ideas is that we are all in this together and that we are here to help each other. Every night we light the Chanukah candles with a helper candle called a shamash. These are the letters that spell "shamash" in Hebrew.
What are shin and mem?