Hanukkah, or the Feast of the Luminaries, is the festival on which the Jewish community commemorates the purification and rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the rebellion of the Maccabees (168-161 BC).
When the Maccabees (so called because of Judas Maccabee's nickname, 'the hammer') liberated Jerusalem from Hellenistic oppression in the autumn of 164 BCE they found the temple desacralised, and the menorah extinguished and without pure oil for more than a day. Even so - according to Talmudic tradition - the menorah remained lit for 8 days, the time it took to obtain new oil, and since then both the rededication of the temple and the miracle of the oil have been celebrated.
This year, Hanukkah will be celebrated between 28 November and 5 December. The celebration at our headquarters is scheduled for the evening of 30 November, starting at 5.45 pm, and includes the ritual lighting of the 3rd candle at sunset, at around 6.05 pm. This will be followed by the recitation of the corresponding blessings (berachot) and the reading, by journalist Salomon Hachuel, of an explanatory text prepared by Varda Fiszbein, and a story about Chanukah read by Emma Pérez Blindman.
To attend it is necessary to register in advance at THIS LINK.
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