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What Does Hanukkah Mean?

The History and Origins of Hanukkah Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday that usually falls in December. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century BCE, after the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucid Empire had taken control of Jerusalem and the temple, and…