Story Behind The Hanukkah: A Festival Of Colors
Hanukkah is the very well-liked yearly Jews festival which is celebrated in eight continuous days start on the 25th day of the month of Kislev which is the 3rd month of the Jews calendar. Kislev nearly falls in December according to calendar of Gregorian. It is well celebrated with colorful lights & experienced with devotion & the Maccabees.
Hanukkah also memorizes the dedication of the Jerusalem’s temple by Judas Maccabee in 165 BC after the Temple had been treated very harshly by Antiochus IV Epiphanes who was the king of Palestine & Syria.
The Jew’s sacred temple was dedicated & seized to the respect of Zeus. Several Jews were terrified by the Greek military & follow them, but many of them were not in favor of this & finally determined to struggle.
The war started in Modiin. Modiin was a village which is near Jerusalem. Greek military & officer bring together the people of the village & ordered them to bend over to a god & have the pig’s flesh; these activities are not permitted to the Jews. The administrator ordered Mattathias who was a Jewishchief priest, to follow these activities but he decline & people of other villages were put forward & ordered to do these activities in its place. Mattathias turn out to be angry and use his weapons to destroy the life of soldiers and then the officers. His all 5 children & the other people of villages attacked on them & killed the armed forces. Mattathia’s children went to hide themselves into the hills and mountain, where a lot of other people who desired to struggle the Greeks merged together. They attacked the Greek armed forces.
Judah Maccabee & few soldiers went to the Jew’s holy temple & were distressed to see that several things were broken or absent, along with the menorah. They renovate the temple & when they completed it, they determined to celebrate a large devotion ceremonial. For the festival, the Maccabees desired to light up the menorah. They search all over the place for oil but found a tiny container that hold only sufficient amount of oil to burn up the menorah only for a day. Amazingly, the oil being burns up for completes eight days & nights. This incident gave them adequate time to find them more oil to remain the menorah burning. Now, Jews enjoy Hanukkah for eight-days by lighting up the candles in a menorah, thus celebrate the eight-day wonder.
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