## Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 1 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/1) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **THE THIRD MIRACLE** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 2 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/2) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** The festivals that commemorate historical events are the way that we transmit our heritage and our history. They are the most effective way to build our values and our identity in future generations, creating a national DNA that is passed from one generation to the next. For Jews, these festivals do not represent just history, but national memory, and are the basis for national identity. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 3 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/3) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Hope is a recurring theme in the Ḥanukka story. The Maccabees had hope that despite overwhelming odds, they could defeat the mightiest and largest army in the world. They had hope that they could find oil to light the Menora. And despite the later destruction of the *Beit HaMikdash*, we still celebrate Ḥanukka because we have hope that one day it will be rebuilt. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 4 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/4) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** The story of the establishment of the modern State of Israel is also a story of hope and miracles, and the overcoming of immense odds. Just three years after the Jewish people experienced the greatest tragedy in human history, they re-established Jewish sovereignty in their ancestral homeland, and thereafter had to fight several wars against numerous enemies, triumphing, despite the odds, again and again. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 5 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/5) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **FROM THE THOUGHT OF RABBI SACKS** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 6 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/6) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Children represent the future, and a society or community that invests in its children has hope for the future. Jewish children in Jewish schools prove that the Jewish people have overcome thousands of years of adversity and persecution, and today we continue to invest in our future, a hopeful future. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 7 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/7) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** This message is the message of Ḥanukka, the story of inextinguishable hope. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 8 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/8) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **IT ONCE HAPPENED…** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 9 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/9) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** Heroism comes in small and large acts. The Maccabees were brave military fighters, but these acts from the wider populace were equally heroic and courageous. They were acts of defiance in the face of persecution, making a clear statement that their will and spirit could not be broken. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 10 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/10) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** **THE ḤANUKKA STORY IN EMOJIS** ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 11 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/11) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** From the days of Alexander the **Great** of **Macedonia**, **Israel** was under the **control** of the Alexandrian Empire of **Greece**. During the **second** century BCE, **Israel** came **under** the **control** of the Seleucids who were based in **Egypt**. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 12 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/12) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** The Seleucid leader, Antiochus the **Fourth**, who modestly called himself Epiphanes, meaning “God made manifest,” decided to **speed** up the pace of Hellenisation on the **Jews** of the land of **Israel**. He made it illegal to publicly practise **Judaism**, erected a **statue** of Zeus in the **Temple**, and offered a **pig** before it as a sacrifice. ###### Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 13 [Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, Educational Companion to the Questions 13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Ceremony%20and%20Celebration%20Family%20Edition%2C%20The%20Hagim/s/Hanukka,_The%20Sixth%20Night,_Educational%20Companion%20to%20the%20Questions/r/13) **Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:** An **elderly** priest called Mattityahu, and his **sons** and their supporters known to history as the **Hammers (Maccabees)**, **fought** back. **Over** the next **three** years, they scored a **great victory** over the Seleucids, reconquering Jerusalem and bringing it **back under Jewish** sovereignty. They cleansed the **Temple** and rededicated it, **lighting** the **great Menora** that stood in the **Temple**, for a celebration lasting **eight** days.