The Great Jewish Family Festival will take place from 3-5 p.m. and includes slot auto racing, candle making, Dance Dance Revolution, Magic Color scratch dreidels, Paws and Dreidel mascots, face painting, giant activity dreidel, Hanukkah crafts and balloon sculptures.
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The parallels are striking.
The trouble, he explained, is that a lunar year lasts about 354 days, far shorter than the 365 and a quarter days that make up the secular solar year. This year, that will be in addition to Christmas gifts.
Christmas and Easter rank as the two holiest days among Christians.
The Hanukkah menorah is traditionally intended not to light the house but “to illuminate the house within”. Yes, Christmas brings out the best in many of us, even when it is stressful. In classical Hebrew, there’s a dot in the middle of the Hebrew letter “kaf”, which indicates an especially robust “k” sound. Both are used interchangeably.
When the Maccabees began preparing the Temple for the re-dedication, they found that they only had enough oil to light the Temple for one night.
A brick was thrown through a young girl’s bedroom window where a menorah, a Hanukkah symbol, was taped. They are both six-branched electric menorahs, with one gold and one silver in color.
Rabbi Mendy Kesselman of Chabad of Frisco said the community wanted to show its support for police after a divisive year for law enforcement, so Frisco Police Chief John Bruce will light one of the candles.
In other words, we start by lighting the right-most candle on the first evening of Hanukkah. As days progress, we keep adding candles.
The candles are placed in the menorah from right to left, but are lit from left to right. This process continues through eight nights.
Some families also give each other a small present on each night. Children receive a gift each night during this holiday. If the dreidel is made in Israel, it reads, “A great miracle happened here”.
Both foods involve frying and oil.
Those interested in attending the temple’s Hanukkah celebration Wednesday are encouraged to RSVP by Monday. How does one light a Menorah?
The origins of Hanukkah lie the battle between the Jewish zealots known as Maccabees and the Seleucid King Antiochus.
“The eight-day holiday begins Saturday at sundown”. This story is told in the Apocryphal Book of Maccabees.
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Suzanne Clark and her family also celebrate Hanukkah by lighting the Menorah, praying, singing and cooking and eating latkes, she said. “They went from a place of darkness where their temple was desecrated and it was against the law to practice their religion to finally defeating the enemy who was preventing them from being who they were. Our ancestors felt the need to put more light into their lives and into the world, and that of course is the hope of any person who believes in a higher being”, she said.
