It is filled like the cup of oil on the menorah and deep fried in cooking oil. (Email me for recipe or look up online.) Sufganyot is a kosher jelly doughnut. Latkes are fried potato pancakes and can be made with either mashed or shredded potatoes, sweet or brown potatoes. (I will find and post a link to tell how each lampstand is lit.)Ī: These are the two traditional foods of Hanukkah. The Hanukkah menorah was created in rememberance of the 8 day dedication celebration and the miracle of the oil lasting 8 days. It is the 7 branch menorah that stayed lit for 8 days at the dedication of the new temple and altar. Q: Why does the Hanukkah menorah have 9 lights and the regular menorah have 7?Ī: The temple menorah has one light for each day of the week.
The holiday is also called Feast of Dedication or Festival of Lights. It has nothing to do with the original Hanukkah observance.Ī: Literally it means dedication. It is a crossover tradition from the practice of Christmas gift giving. The practice of giving gifts is a recent addition to the holiday. Q: Is it traditional practice to give gifts for Hanukkah?Ī: No. translation is YSHVH transliterated to Yeshua or translated to Jesus. The “ch” however, has more of a glutteral sound from the back of the throat. Please post your own questions and I’ll see if I can answer them and post helpful links for further information.Ī: Hanukkah is a translation (the word translated into our language), wheras Chanukah is a tranliteration (a translation of letter sounds). If you would like a copy of the class handout, please email me and I can either mail or e-mail it to you. I’ll let you read the stories for yourself and move on to answer some common questions about Hanukkah. Dot 3) Jesus uses the observance of this holiday to point to himself as the light of the world in John 9-10. Dot 2) His distress tells you how horrible this genocide and blasphemy was as Josephus and the writer of Maccabees records the historical event as it happened not long before Jesus’ birth. Dot 1) It began as a prophecy that made Daniel so sick to his stomach that he couldn’t even eat for days. So please connect the dots in understanding the story of Hanukkah. Here you are as seeing people who have no sight at all for the God who stands before your very eyes!” The Pharisees and others riduculed Jesus and proved the point that, “The blind man could not see and then received his sight. Jesus’ message was this: Here is a blind man who was blind, not by his own doing, and made seeing, also not by his own will or doing. It was deliberate that this scene in John took place during Hanukkah, for in it we find the message of Hanukkah. And now he was standing there with them on the streets of Jerusalem during this 8 day celebration and Hanukkah menorahs in every window sill as they say, “Tell us plainly who you are!” When Hanukkah was first established, Jesus knew he would use this as a perfect, beautiful illustration of himself.
He came and made these exact parallels by his words and actions. They knew the prophecies that said Jesus would be the Light of the World. John 10:22 plainly states that it is during Hanukkah that this happened. Later, in chapter 10, the Pharisees were by then irate with him for having done this and claimed divine authority to do so. In John chapter 9, Jesus put a mud salve on the eyes of a blind man, told him to go wash it off and he would receive his sight. Jesus later pointed to His diety during Hanukkah. Their destruction and subsequent miraculous defeat were recorded in the book of I Maccabees where the 8 day celebration of Hanukkah was first instituted by decree of “Judas and his brothers and the entire congregation of Israel” (I Macc 4:52-59). In Daniel 8, the prophet tells of the coming destruction that later came by Antiochus Epiphanes. While they lend historical value, their discrepancies indicated to scholars that they were not written under inspiration of God directly speaking to the people. The Apocrypha consists of books that did not make it into the canon of the mainstream Christian Bible.
Hanukkah is found in the book of I Maccabees in the intertestamental books of the Apocrypha. Purim is found in the story of Esther when Mordecai invited Jewish survivors across the entire land to remember the miracle of God’s salvation. These two man-made biblical holidays are Purim and Hanukkah. There are two major celebrations in Jewish tradition that are mentioned in the bible which are manmade and not God-instituted the way the feasts and holy days were.
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