The eight-day Jewish festival starts on Christmas Day this year
Jewish communities will start celebrating Hanukkah this week with public events planned across Greater Manchester over the eight nights of the festival. The annual festival involves lighting candles on a menorah, eating fried foods and spinning dreidels.
Throughout the week, menorahs will be paraded on cars throughout Greater Manchester too. Here's everything you need to know. A multi-branched candelabra known as a menorah was lit and despite the Maccabees only finding a small drop of oil, enough to burn for one day, the oil ended up lasting for eight nights – enough time for more oil to be resupplied.
This year, the evening of Wednesday, December 25 marks the start of Hanukkah. The eight-day celebration will end on the evening of Thursday, January 2. The dreidel gambling game stems from the Greek-Syrian rule when Jews were prevented from studying the Torah, the Hebrew bible, and so whenever a soldier walked by, they would play with dreidels to hide their learning. As the Hanukkah miracle involved oil, it is customary to eat foods fried in oil – traditionally in Europe this includes potato latkes and jam-filled doughnuts.
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