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What is 'how to light the menorah'
left to right
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What is 7?
The menorah in the Besi Hamikdash had this many branches.
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What is Modiin?
Yehudah HaMacabee is buried in this city.
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Who is Eliporni/Holofernes?
He lost his head by Yehudis.
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What is a latke?
It comes from the Ukrainian word ‘oladka’
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why do we have a shammos?
So that if one reads near the Chanukah lights, the benefit will have been derived from something other than the candles.
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What is one?
The amount of menorahs needed per household
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Who are women?
Because they play an important part in the miracle, they don’t work while the Chanukah lights are burning.
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Who is Nikanor?
This Greek general shares a name with a Temple gate.
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What are chodesh, Shabbos, and mila?
The first three letters of Chashmonaim stand for these three mitzvos that were outlawed by the Greeks.
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who is beis Shammai?
8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, they say.
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What is 3623?
Hebrew year of the Chanukah ness
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What is Syria?
Because they play an important part in the miracle, they don’t work while the Chanukah lights are burning.
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What is Epimanus/ the Crazy one?
Antiochus called himself Epiphanus (Divine), but behind his back, his soldiers called him___?
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What is Az Yashir?
The pasuk that MaCaBeE stands for is found in this specific section of the Torah.
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What is Plag HaMincha?
The earliest one can light Chanukah candles?
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What is 20 cubits?
The menorah can not be higher from the ground than this.
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What is the kingship?
After the chanukah ness, the Chashmonaim were wiped out as punishment for taking this.
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Who is Shimon?
The only Maccabee to survive the war
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What is Tekoa?
The location of the Bais Hamikdash olive grove in the tribe of Asher
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What is the menorah burning for eight days?
This chanukah event is not mentioned in Al Hanissim.
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Who is R’ Yosef Karo?
He wrote a book with 100 answers to the question of why Chanukah is 8 days and not 7.
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What is a leopard?
In galus bavel, the prophet Daniel had a dream informing him of the four nations that would enslave the Jewish people. In one vision, he saw four wild animals, each one destroying the one that came before it. Bavel was shown as a lion, Persia as a bear, Greece as a ______.
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Who is Zerubavel?
The only Jewish person mentioned in Maoz Tzur
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What is Zevulun?
The dedication offering read on the third day of Chanukah was brought by the nasi of this tribe.
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