Feast of Dedication: Hanukkah menorah and holiday decorations

Learn About The Feast of Lights{Hannukkah|The Feast of Lights|Chanukah}

The Jewish festival known by most as Hannukkah is also called the "Feast of the Maccabees" or the "Feast of Lights" and historically beginning twenty-five days into the ninth month, called Kislev, according to the Hebrew calendar, and continues over an eight day period. This commemoration was instituted in response to Judas Maccabaeus purification the Jerusalem temple because Antiochus Epiphanes, the Syrian Ruler, contaminated it in the year 168 B.C. by set up a pagan shrine to the God Zeus Olympius. Read the rest of this entry »