Hanukkah Hebrew
Hanukkah Facts
Hanukkah blessings and songs
Hanukkah foods
Hanukkah names
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The Hebrew word for "Menorah with 9 branches"

What is a Hanukiah

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The candle that lights all the other candles


What is Shamash

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In the dreidel song we sing "dreidel, dreidel, dreidel I made it out of..."

What is Clay

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Gelt is made out of this

What is chocolate?

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The name of the leader of the Maccabees

Who is Judah Maccabee 

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The Hebrew word for "dreidel"

What is a Sevivon

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The number of candles we light on the 6th night

What is 7

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The last two words of the first Hanukkah blessing

What is "Shel Hanukkah"

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Made out of potatoes, flattened and fried in oil

What is latkes?

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The name of the evil Greek King

Who is Antiochus

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The Hebrew word for "latkes"

What is Levivot

300

The total number of candles needed to celebrate Hanukkah

What is 44

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The prayer that we say only on the first night of Hanukkah

What is the SheHecheyanu

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You can dip your latkes in these two things

What is applesauce and sour cream

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Another name for Hanukkah in English

What is Festival of Lights

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The letters on the dreidel, and what they stand for

What is נ,ג,ה,ש/פ - A Great Miracle Happened There/Here - נס גדול היה שם/פה

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The direction we light the Hanukkah candles

What is Left to right (we place them on the Menorah from right to left, but since we are supposed to light the last candle first, we end up lighting from left to right)

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Complete: "Oh Hanukkah, Oh, Hanukkah come light the menorah, let's have a party...."

What is "We'll all dance the Hora"

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This reason why we eat fried food on Hanukkah

What is to remind us of the miracle of the oil lasting for 8 days

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The name of Judah Maccabee's Father

Who is Mattathias 

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The Hebrew month Hanukah is celebrated on

What is Kislev

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The origins of the word "Maccabee" (where it comes from)

What are the first letters in every word in the phrase Mi Camohca Ba'Elim Adonai - מי כמוך באלים יי (Who is like you, God?)

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The Hebrew Name for the song "Rock of Ages"

What is Maoz Tzur

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The name of the special fried donuts that we eat on Hanukkah

What is Sufganiyot?

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The meaning of the name "Hanukkah"

What is Rededication (cleaning up the Temple after the Greeks destroyed it