{"id":33882,"date":"2019-12-13T03:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=33882"},"modified":"2019-12-12T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T20:58:45","slug":"some-chanukah-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/13\/some-chanukah-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Chanukah trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. What does the word Maccabee mean?<\/li>\n
  2. Who were the five sons of Mattathias?<\/li>\n
  3. What is a Chanukah lamp called?<\/li>\n
  4. What are the letters on a dreidel outside of Israel? Inside Israel?<\/li>\n
  5. In which book of the Bible do we read the story of Chanukah?<\/li>\n
  6. Who was Judith and why is she mentioned on the Shabbat of Chanukah?<\/li>\n
  7. What was Mattathias\u2019s wife\u2019s name?<\/li>\n
  8. How many candles are in a box of Chanukah candles?<\/li>\n
  9. Why do we give gelt on Chanukah?<\/li>\n
  10. How many years occurred between the desecration of the Temple and the killings in Modiin by Mattathias and the Maccabee uprising?<\/li>\n
  11. According to Jewish custom, what kind of oil should be used for the Chanukah lights?<\/li>\n
  12. Why were the schools of Hillel and Shammai in disagreement about Chanukah?<\/li>\n
  13. What is unique about the mitzvah of kindling Chanukah lights?<\/li>\n
  14. How should one popularize the mitzvah of lighting the candles for Chanukah?<\/li>\n
  15. What king ordered the people of his kingdom to become Greek in religion and culture?<\/li>\n
  16. Why don\u2019t Jews celebrate the things really done by the Maccabees?<\/li>\n
  17. Why did Judah Maccabee want this holiday celebrated for eight days?<\/li>\n
  18. Who were the Hasmoneans?<\/li>\n
  19. How long did the war continue after the Temple was rededicated?<\/li>\n
  20. How did each of the Maccabean brothers die?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0<\/em>Trivia answers<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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    1. One tradition says it means hammer and was applied to the Maccabee family because of their strength. Another says it stands for Mi kamocha baelim Adonai<\/em>, Who is like you among the great ones, O G-d?<\/li>\n
    2. Judah, Jonathan, Jochanan, Eleazar, Simeon<\/li>\n
    3. Chanukiyah<\/li>\n
    4. Nun, gimmel, hay, shin; nun, gimmel, hay, po<\/li>\n
    5. The story does not appear in any book of the Bible. It is found in Maccabees I and Maccabees II, part of the Apocrypha, books not included in the Bible.<\/li>\n
    6. Judith was a Hasmonean woman, whose story is a book of the Apocrypha. She saved her town from destruction by killing the general in charge.<\/li>\n
    7. No one knows because she is never mentioned in the books of Maccabees.<\/li>\n
    8. 44<\/li>\n
    9. During the Middle Ages, adults began to play games on Chanukah. In the 1700s, children began to play dreidel and were given coins for playing.<\/li>\n
    10. One year<\/li>\n
    11. Olive oil<\/li>\n
    12. Hillel wanted one light on the first night and additional lights added each night. Shammai wanted eight lights on the first night and one subtracted each night.<\/li>\n
    13. Even if one does not have food to eat, one should beg or sell their clothing to buy oil and lamps to light for Chanukah.<\/li>\n
    14. Place the lights at or near the outer part of the door facing the street or in a window facing the street.<\/li>\n
    15. Antiochus Epiphanes<\/li>\n
    16. The rabbis did not want military battles commemorated, so they created the story of the oil being found by the Maccabees and lasting eight days.<\/li>\n
    17. Because the men had been fighting at the time of Sukkot and had not celebrated it, they decided to commemorate that holiday by observing this one for eight days.<\/li>\n
    18. The Maccabees were part of the House of Hashmon and called Hasmoneans, a title of honour that denoted its high standing.<\/li>\n
    19. The war continued 127 more years.<\/li>\n
    20. Judah was in battle and his unit became sandwiched between two enemy divisions. Eleazar was under attack by a unit on elephants \u2013 he thought the king or general was on a particular elephant so he thrust a sword into the elephant and it fell on him and crushed him. Yochanan was attacked by a tribe near the Dead Sea. Simeon was entertained by his son-in-law, made drowsy from wine and assassinated by the son-in-law\u2019s accomplices. Jonathan was put to death by the Syrian king Tryphon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Sybil Kaplan<\/strong> is a journalist, lecturer, book reviewer and food writer in Jerusalem. She created and leads the weekly English-language Shuk Walks in Machane Yehuda, she has compiled and edited nine kosher cookbooks, and is the author of <\/em>Witness to History: Ten Years as a Woman Journalist in Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      What does the word Maccabee mean? Who were the five sons of Mattathias? What is a Chanukah lamp called? What are the letters on a dreidel outside of Israel? Inside Israel? In which book of the Bible do we read the story of Chanukah? Who was Judith and why is she mentioned on the Shabbat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[2517,4242,218,5020],"class_list":["post-33882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-chanukah","tag-history","tag-judaism","tag-maccabees"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}